Matti Friedman“Matti Friedman’s haunting war memoir reminds one of Michael Herr’s unforgettable Vietnam memoir, Dispatches. It, too, is destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. Evocative,...

Louisa B Waugh Do Gazans ever have fun? Is the Strip beautiful? And do TV reports actually reflect ordinary life inside the world’s largest ‘open-air prison’?From beautiful beaches to sealed...

Etgar Keret "Extraordinary. It is rare three-page piece that can move a reader to tears, but Keret does it without effort, and brings unexpected tears of laughter a moment later....

Jeanette Winterson   In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington,...