Taiwan Travelogue — a Booker-longlisted novel on the tricks of translationAt the heart of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s rich, heady book is the uneasy bond between a Japanese author and her Taiwanese interpreter Mar 06 26March 06, 2026Article at Financial Times
This Strange Eventful History — Claire Messud’s magnificent, multi-layered sagaBased on the author’s own family history, this continent-hopping novel chronicles the relentless march of time and the people swept up by it Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The American… May 23 24May 23, 2024Article at Financial Times
You Dreamed of Empires — a colonial encounter reimaginedÁlvaro Enrigue revisits Spain’s conquest of Mexico through the eyes of Cortés, the conquistadors and the vanquished natives Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like the fall of Constantinople in… Jan 04 24January 04, 2024Article at Financial Times
THE RETURN: Q&A with Dulce Maria Cardoso“I wanted to talk about a past towards which I felt a special responsibility: what happened could not be forgotten.” In 2016, MacLehose Press published THE RETURN, by Portuguese author Dulce Maria Cardoso, translated by me. A year later, at the time… Jul 01 17July 01, 2017Article at Angel on Authory
Imagining Eden: Beyond the mirage of Latin American identityEdward James' jungle folly in Xilitla, Mexico. (Photo by Ulf Jenninger)From the Winter 2015/16 Issue "Latin America On Life Support?"By Ángel Gurría-Quintana When European explorers first caught sight of the land they would soon call the New World,… Dec 09 15December 09, 2015Article at World Policy
Access all eras: Adventures in living history The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century By Ian Mortimer The Bodley Head £20 FT Bookshop price: £16 Ancient Athens on Five Drachmas a Day By Philip Matyszak Thames & Hudson £12.95 FT… Nov 07 08November 07, 2008Article at Financial Times
All Shall Be Well, by Tod WodickaAll Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well By Tod Wodicka Jonathan Cape £11.99, 266 pages FT bookshop price: £9.59 I’m bewildered by people who spend their weekends pretending to be Vikings, Romans or American… Jul 21 07July 21, 2007Article at Financial Times
Rewriting history: Review of recent historical fictionHenry James despised all forms of historical fiction. “The ‘historic’ novel is, for me, condemned…to a total cheapness,” he declared. His main gripe was technical rather than aesthetic. No author, he held, could truly imagine him or herself into a… Apr 07 06April 07, 2006Article at Financial Times
Hobby horses: A short journey into 'living history'I am queuing outside a portable toilet behind a Viking and a Roman legionary. The air is thick with the fatty smell of spit-roasts from a nearby Norman encampment. Over the sound system, an excited narrator gives a real-time, blow-by-blow account of… Sep 23 05September 23, 2005Article at Financial Times
An interview with Ciaran CarsonThis interview with Irish poet and novelist Ciaran Carson, previously unpublished, was conducted over email in 2002. A shortened version appeared in 2005 in the Barcelona-based literary journal, Lateral. ******** AG: Your fiction is mostly set… Jun 02 02June 02, 2002Article at Angel on Authory
