Inside the Triangle: It was supposed to be a holiday, time off in the sun to recover from the stresses and strains of modern life. Only something hit the plane and now you’ve come down near an island that doesn’t show up on any map, populated by creatures that should have been dea...
fiction,roald dahl,writing Some months ago I read Roald Dahl’sCharlie and the Chocolate Factoryto my children. I had not read the book since primary school, and it was interesting reading in a number of senses. One of them is that it seems to violate modern advice on how to write a ...
I’ve worked in others’ sandboxes and my own: five of my novels take place within an existing IP (the Forgotten Realms, owned by Wizards of the Coast), five are totally creator-owned (Eye for an Eye, Scourge of the Realm, and my World of Ruin series), and one was written original...
England, Germany, and other "modern" countries now look to me about the way that Saudi Arabia and Iran look to westerners now, crazy and backwards... If some crazy cultists cut off your foreskin to deprive you of sex pleasure, double or triple or septuple up on sex pleasure and fuck ...
The Sisters of the Winter Woodby Rena Rossner was a really interesting read. It was a mix of a retelling of Christina Rosetti’s The Goblin Market, retelling of Russian and Ukrainian folk tales, Jewish history and folklore and historical fiction/fantasy. It was told in the alternating perspect...
First serialized inScience Fiction World, a Chinese sci-fi monthly, and translated for English readers by Chinese-American novelist Ken Liu in 2014, the trilogy won the prestigious Hugo Award in 2015 and has since become a major gateway for global readers into the world of Chinese sci-fi. ...
Observing the interplay of language and script in earlier periods can also give us a better understanding of the origins of modern national literatures. When he was formulating the concept ofWeltliteraturin the 1820s, during the heyday of European nationalism, Goethe spoke of world literature natura...
Nationality:Chinese-American Links: Biography Molly X. Chang is a first-generation immigrant born in Harbin, China. Molly was raised on folklore told by the grandparents who taught her to take pride in the heritages and cultures that shaped her life, and the harrowing history of the ancestors ...
funky boy who works in the dance shop – leaps into her life. Weighed down by family expectations, Rosa is at a crossroads, desperate to escape so she can show everyone what she can do when freed of her pointe shoes. Now is her chance to break away from a life in tulle, grooving to...
but it was a different word on each side of the Pond. The OED’s last non-American quotation forass‘arse’ is 1768, other than in the nautical expressionass of the block. As for the other way around, we are told “now rare in North America”, which in dictionary-speak means “we...