Can the master spy writer still captivate readers?

'Can a Wodehouse, an R K Narayan, a Scott Fitzgerald and yes, a Le Carre, with the sensibilities of a bygone era still captivate a modern reader's attention?''Le Carre is making a brave and......

What we need to learn from people

F Scott Fitzgerald is renowned for being the chronicler of America's 'Gilded Age'. That was the period between the First World War and the Depression, when American plutocracy came into its own,......

Here's what makes Gatsby GREAT, and Fundamentalist RELUCTANT

The Great Gatsby and The Reluctant Fundamentalist are two attempts to make moralising novels into spectacular movies. Here's why the first succeeds and the other fails. The first book that Mohsin......