Magnificent Octopus

More about The City & the City . Dislocation Miéville on the nature of the cities and the sense of dislocation that accompanies detectiv...

If all experience is more than the sum of its parts, is it in any way possible to reconstruct a semblance thereof by analyzing its constitue...

"Stick us to crowds," I told him. "And to crosshatching." More people, and where the two cities are close up they make f...

For some reason, likely sparked by a passage in 2666 , I find myself, as I'm treading the familiar path from the métro to my office, thi...

Eleanor Wachtel's interview with A.S. Byatt, recorded at the 11th Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival , was broadca...

When they were alone, Ironside said, "I never thought this would be easy." "Sir, may I ask you a question?" "I wish...

Yesterday I forsook the company 5 à 7 for a book launch. The book is about a frog, and the launch was at my daughter's school. Robert So...

Last weekend, as my Facebook friends already know, I went out for groceries. But I came home with a kitten. I dragged the family out of the...

Today I was up at the crack of dawn making chicken soup from scratch. The smell of it followed me all day. My fingers like boiled carrots. L...

" It's a secret. " Washington Irving's old Dutch-style house: Sunnyside . She had spoken like a girl — it was impossible t...

When it was back down to seven dogs, Chaplin took them everywhere he went on the lot. When the payroll girl came to approve the raise for Ca...

Last week, this poem arrived in my inbox: Written Late at Night Almost all day I sat at the table And, swapping two pens, wrote letters. On...

Last weekend, J-F and I crowded into the hotel space where Jian Ghomeshi interviewed Jonathan Goldstein as part of the 11th Blue Metropolis ...

A.S. Byatt and Eleanor Wachtel take their seats on stage. Wachtel explains that she was asked to chat before they begin proper, to ask somet...

Tonight, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! author Jonathan Goldstein ( WireTap ) is interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi at the 11th Blue Metropolis...

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Profile: AS Byatt interview: Nothing like the Dame . Interview: A.S. Byatt: On the nature of writing . "I love Montreal and I love the ...

Baby steps. The Children's Book , by A.S. Byatt, starts off at a luxuriously leisurely pace. Time, to start, is measured in parties, soc...

Since first I ever laid eyes on it, weeks ago, I can't get it out of my mind. The Sony VAIO P Series Pocket-Style PC is one of the most...

The Children's Book , by A.S. Byatt. Isn't it beautiful? The cover depicts a brooch by René Lalique, depicted in the novel at the Ex...