Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “We watched history happen, we were history, and it was like living in a novel, in the sense that we were in ...

Gina Apostol’s stunning novel “Insurrecto” offers a nuanced narration that deftly illustrates the power of perspective and the importance of the storyteller while revisiting the complicated history of ...

Ever since I was young, I've loved stories set in the far-flung reaches of the West's many empires — from the British Raj of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India to the surreal Vietnam of Apocalypse Now ...

“I wonder if we are stuck in bad movie plots we make ourselves,” says Magsalin, the character at the centre of Gina Apostol’s thrillingly imagined and provocative inquiry into the nature of stories ...

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