All I Want for Christmas is... Books!
UPDATED DAILY from December 1 through to December 24, Emigre writers on the books they would be happy to receive for Christmas.
Remember Me
An extract from Remember Me by Charity Norman, winner of the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel.
The Double Afterlife of Maali Almeida
How Shehan Karunatilaka’s Chats with the Dead became Booker Prize winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
Brothers in Arms
From the Archives: ASH Smyth looks out over mist-covered mountains, on Remembrance Sunday.
Arctic Sun
An extract from Jack Grimwood’s forthcoming thriller, Arctic Sun—out this month from Penguin Michael Joseph.
The Parable of Poyais, Part III
Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX and Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos are but modern-day reincarnations of Cazique MacGregor’s Poyais.
The Parable of Poyais, Part II
For credulous investors, Poyais was an exotic land of unparalleled opportunity.
The Parable of Poyais, Part I
Was the remarkable territory of Poyais—full of unbounded commercial and civic promise—all it was made up to be? Or was it simply too good to be true?
A Letter from the Apocalypse
From the Archives: an extract from Yudhanjaya Wijeratne’s prize-winning novel about a Kafkaesque, near-future Sri Lanka, and the stupidity of it all.
