The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 presidential election, he taps a group of...

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A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of...

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His father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead...

As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the...

Margit is at the point in life when things should have cohered. She's married, she's got a degree, she's got friends who throw...

Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss fish-breeding. In...

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Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought...

Pol suffers from a very rare hormonal disorder that ages him erratically; when he was thirteen, his body aged ten years...

Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Stu and Maureen Jenkins’s Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak...

Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished into the sea, is now remembered as 'the land of sushi'. Hiruko, a...

Haroun's father is the greatest of all storyletters. His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay. But one day...

A man is thrown out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn’t...

By an author described by critics as ‘the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop’. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating...

What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In...

A blackly comic epic – a voyage through small-town America, and through the interior life of its most neurotic mailman. Albert...

The Mezzanine is the story of one man's lunch hour. It addresses the big questions of corporate life, like: Why does one shoelace...

In England half a century ago, well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Some things are not to be...

Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century – an ordinary man in extraordinary...

In the heart of Mexico City a woman, trapped in a house and a marriage she can neither fully inhabit nor abandon, thinks about...

Six young people meet on an archaeological dig in a remote corner of Greenland. Excavating the unsettling remains of a Norse...

Only weeks into their marriage a young couple embark on a six-month period of separation. Tom Cavendish goes to Japan to build...

Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write. She also has an insomniac toddler, a precocious, death-obsessed seven-year-old, and a...

Set in 1795, "Water Music" is the rambunctious account of two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the...

‘Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally...

In Reading Chekhov Janet Malcolm takes on three roles: literary critic, biographer and journalist. Her close readings of...

Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a...

In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall. He is sailing for the Summer Isles, a...

Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu’s reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young...

A young boy plays hide and seek in the suburbs of Santiago, unaware that his neighbours are becoming entangled in the brutality...