Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Thousand and ...

What happens when the techniques of realist literature become absorbed into our understanding of real life? And what would it mean to try to depict that experience in fiction? In Dag Solstad’s Shyness and Dignity (1994), a middle-aged teacher, Elias Rukla, is teaching Ibsen’s The ...  Show more

In 1737, Samuel Johnson and his student David Garrick decided to walk to London from Lichfield in search of opportunity. It worked out well for both of them, but for many of the large number who made their hopeful journey to the capital from all over the country in the 18th centu ...  Show more

📝A Cavern Full of Snakes is apparently a Great Classroom📝Hasib is still stuck in the room with the Queen of Serpents and twelve thousand snakes, and the QoS a story to tell. Two of them, actually. Long ones. Two years' worth of stories of guys lost in the world...and two differ ...  Show more

Join us for a mysterious and enchanting story from the worlds most famous collection of classic tales, Arabian Nights. So, get comfy on your bed, chair or magic carpet and prepare for this wonderous and mysterious tale. Please leave a 5-star review & SUBSCRIBE on Apple and Spotif ...  Show more

Omar El Akkad’s new novel, “What Strange Paradise,” uses some fablelike techniques to comment on the migrant crisis caused by war in the Middle East. El Akkad ...

We're back in the stories of 1001 nights, where Scheherazade has to tell bedtime stories to save her life. On the first, a man ruins a wedding reception and can't show his face in town again. The second starts with a murder, and then only gets darker.This week's item, the ridicul ...  Show more