TeaHe named the wind only in the British Isles, Helm is a strong northerly gale that blows down the slopes of Cross Fell in the Pennines and is known for its unusual cloud formations. Helm has been known to remove roofs, haystacks, trees, and riders from their horses. Twenty years in the writing, Sarah Hall’s
TeaThe latest novel from Matt Haig, author of Reasons to Stay Alive, begins with an octogenarian having a heart attack. Former business magnate Wilbur Budd is already feeling a little awkward when he gets a call from his ex-wife Maggie, whom he has not heard from in years. “I wanted to hear your voice,” she
wWith its gods, monsters and dizzying scale, Homer’s The Odyssey is considered by many to be unfilmable, though that hasn’t stopped directors from giving it a go, including Christopher Nolan, whose blockbuster adaptation hits theaters next week. An audiobook seems to be a smart choice, allowing listeners to deploy their imaginations to conjure dark magic,
YRSA is a young black graduate supervisor studying for a Sociology PhD at Cambridge. She is tired of the disappointing men around her: those she works with, those she sleeps with and those who abuse her and her friends’ trust. She is fond of the students attending her lectures and “the mixture of boredom, skepticism,
In a new audiobook version of Homer’s nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem “The Odyssey,” the voice of British actor Michael Caine delivers the story’s soaring opening lines in his distinctive, gravelly staccato. “Tell me, O Muse, of the wise man who overthrew the sacred city of Ilium, wandered far and visited the capitals of many nations,
IIt’s been a decade since Olivia Laing published The Lonely City, a blend of memoir and cultural analysis on the isolation of urban life. Lange – who is non-binary – had moved to Manhattan after a love affair that ended abruptly. Once there, they were surprised by their feelings of loneliness. Laing observed that “You