North Africa, 1972. A man with no memory wakes up in the desert with a massive hole in his head. So far, so yawn: please, not another one of those lost memory characters stumbling
The 20th century has just begun, and Russia is in turmoil. To suppress an outbreak of student unrest, the governor of St Petersburg, Yegor von Rasimkara, closes the state universit
Real life isn’t as static and as matter of fact as we might think. We simply limit the vocabulary about our lives, telling ourselves only one or two stories about who we are: We
Under the new world order, where politicians commission journalists to stick to post-truth alternative facts, media stories can read like dystopian fiction. Finnish author Antti Tu
Given the past few years of turmoil in Greece, it’s surprising that there hasn’t been a spate of crime novels flowing from what could easily be described as the modern cradle,
Elif Shafak writes novels of ideas. She’s written ten so far and Three Daughters of Eve is no exception. But if novels of ideas sound dry and forbidding, hers are not. They are
