Genre Explorations

A new prize for fiction engaging with the climate crisis, The Climate Fiction Prize, will be launched at this year’s Hay Festival (23rd May to 2nd June). The award, supported...

► Why is the novel “Houaria” being criticized? In mid-July, “Houaria” by writer, poet, and translator Inaam Bayoudh received the Assia-Djebar Prize for the best Arabic novel. The prize is...

AAP FACTCHECK – A picture book called ‘Mom and Dad’s Swinger Party’ is being used as evidence that children are being targeted with sexualised reading material. This is misleading. The...

Phil Collen and Hysteria Graphic Novel Ross Halfin; Courtesy of Vault Comics As a teen in England, Phil Collen was obsessed with all things American. The music, be it rock...

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We’ll never know exactly what happened, but the hoary remains are terrifying enough.In 1845, more than 120 men under the command of Sir John Franklin set out on two ships,...

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PARIS LIFTS the soul, and then exasperates. It expresses reason in its orderly layout and tugs at the heart. The City of Lights mixes magic with the mundane: it is...

I’ve always been an avid reader, but in recent years, my reading list had become dominated by self-help books and business biographies. Fiction, with its tales of far-off lands and...

‘Those About to Die’ stars talk new swords-and-sandals series set in Ancient Rome DUBAI: British-Yemeni actor Moe Hashim (“Ted Lasso”) and Iceland’s Johannes Haukur Johannesson (“Succession”) spoke to Arab News...