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Primal grunts in a literary paradise
The Caribbean shimmers in sunlight behind me. Another sea, waves of people, 2,500 strong, sits in front, on chairs or on the grass in the shade, staring. I’m surrounded. And my ill-advised idea is to...
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Not all eyes are on the Prizes
Gil Adamson’s The Outlander, Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo, Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes, Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Last Crossing, Alistair MacLeod’s No...
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Michael Ondaatje, the songwriter?
Newscom/ Ivan Otis Michael Ondaatje didn’t waste any time, recalls singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge, who turned to the famous novelist last summer for some guidance on a few songs before recording his...
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REVIEW: The Cat’s Table: A Novel
Michael is an 11-year-old boy who boards an ocean liner in Ceylon in 1954 for the journey to London, to reunite with his mother. On board he falls in with two other boys—the careful Ramadhin and the...
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