F. Kafka, Everyman

If few readers of Kafka can be truly sorry for the existence of the works Kafka had consigned to oblivion, many regret the way Brod chose to present them.

Everybody needs to get thicker skins

Readers have voted Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel Midnight’s Children their favourite Booker prize-winner of all time – and it’s not even his best-known work

Men in White [Netherland by Joseph O’Neill]

The ambiguous title fits a novel remarkable for its complex geographical situation. Joseph O’Neill, with his mixed Irish and Turkish parentage, and a childhood spent partly in the Hague, now lives in New York City

Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939

Uncommon Arrangements explores the dynamics of seven miserable ‘marriages à la mode’. From the hell that was life with H G Wells (‘I am thinking continually’, wrote his wife, who shared him with a harem, ‘of the disappointing mess of it’) to the weirdness of being loved

Returning To Earth

‘Jibanananda’ is a Tagorean name; its meaning, ‘the joy of life’, recalls, for me, the lines from a famous song in the Gitanjali, in which Tagore’s defiant Nietzschean mood is contained, as it almost always is, by decorum and serenity: ‘Jagate ananda jagne/ Amaar nimantrana’ —

The grandest family in publishing

Jeremy Lewis reviews The Seven Lives of John Murray by Humphrey Carpenter

Funny bones, Communist jokes

“How do you deal with mice in the Kremlin?” “Put up a sign saying ‘collective farm’. Then half the mice will starve and the others will run away.”

Love in a cold climate

It's an intriguing image. In silvery monochrome which blurs slightly towards its edges, the two men sit side by side on chairs turned back-to-front, with their golden retriever seated between them. We know a little about this...

Nigeria: Nobel Prize Politics – Chinua Achebe, a Shameful Omission – Annie Gagiano

Annie Gagiano is a Professor of English at Stellen bosch University, South Africa. She obtained her B .A(Honours), M.A as well a D. Lit from the same university, where she has been teaching in the Department of English for over three decades now (1967). As one of the earliest scholars of African prose fiction, and the twentieth-century English poetry, Gagiano's foray into African writing has become a subject of discourse amongst scholars as her scholarly contributions have equally lent credence to her agitation for a black renaissance.

Fiction in Argentina is an evolving story

Laid-back and casually attired, the 37-year-old writer first made his mark with "Una noche con Sabrina Love" (A Night With Sabrina Love), the cyber-picaresque tale of a spirited 18-year-old boy whose fantasies get upended by fact after winning a night with the porn star of his dreams.

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