Mulisch, who died in 2010, was a titan of Dutch literature, admired by JM Coetzee and John Updike. Here, in a fresh printing, ...

With her stylish novel Call Me Ishmaelle, Xiaolu Guo both pays heed to the American classic and breaks out into something of ...

If you ask Samina Ali about the work that went into her new memoir, she might liken herself to a peckish ocean predator. “You know how they say a shark circles its prey? That’s what it was like,” she ...

Now the book’s famous opening line, “Call me Ishmael,” is transposed to the very end of the opera when the character has ...

With that in mind, I realized early on that since the novel is narrated by Ishmael many years after the fact, I needed to change the dynamic of the story so that we’re watching Ishmael get on that ...

Now the book’s famous opening line, “Call me Ishmael,” is transposed to the very end of the opera when the character has matured. “In the novel, Ishmael is telling a story that happened ...