THE telling of stories is unique to the human race, no argument. Debate begins only when we ponder our origin. And God said, "Let there be writers." Flash bang hocus pocus! Cave walls shone with ...

The desert song is unshackled. With the defeat and death of the tyrant Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan writers greet a new era. For the first time ever, they can bare their souls without a dictator or ...

DON’T tell, don’t tell, don’t tell. An urgent voice (perhaps the butler) forbids me whenever I want to write about favourite villains. You see, all my best-loved baddies are in whodunits. Describing them would spoil ...

LAME? William Shakespeare? The brilliant wordsmith, father of English literature, flawed of frame? Yes, he said it himself, even wrote it in a bitter pun: "Speak of my lameness and I straight will halt". That’s ...