Oromay, a 1983 political satire about Ethiopia’s civil war, has finally been translated into English. The novel, an instant ...

THIS piercing shard of a novel nods to Shuggie Bain in its story of a gay son and an alcoholic mother, although its harder, darker and far less pretty. Our narrator has returned to his mother ...

When José Saramago denounced the Bible as a ‘catalogue of cruelties’ at the launch of his novel Cain in 2009, the response from the Catholic church in Portugal was fast and frosty. The country’s ...

Maeve Brennan (1917-93) was a supremely gifted Irish/American writer, whose work is periodically rediscovered, only to vanish again. It’s as if her literary reputation (she has been compared with ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s hard to read Oromay, a fictionalised account of Ethiopia’s failed 1980s campaign to suppress a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has been drawn into an increasingly fractious activist campaign ...

Netflix has delivered another thriller based on one of Harlan Coben's books. "Missing You" follows a detective whose fiancé has been missing for 11 years. The show is billed as a limited series, but ...