Most readers require of prose that it make concrete sense as they ... The three stories in her earliest (1909) book, Three Lives, being anchored to sense, are good ones to start on.

The plot—a 19th century version of the ancient tale of Tristan and Isolde—is every bit as lurid as the prose. Cryptic strangers turn up at Cornish inns; blackhearted villains display ...

Atlanta author and bookseller Katie Mitchell likes to tell an identity-defining story about her childhood that often pleasantly shocks listeners.

Given the metaphysical enormity of the texture of the poems, the book is doubtless a valuable addition to the extant repository of prose poetry in Urdu. ‘Samaey ka dhara’ (‘the stream of ...

Hilary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall (2009) is an example of historical fiction. This novel is based on real people and historical events in the court of Henry VIII, but Hilary Mantel also uses her ...