First things first: Yes, this is a game review — but I'm no gamer. I'm surrounded by them at work and at home, mind you, but I personally haven't played a video game since a brief Tetris obsession in ...

When the great Austrian novelist Hermann Broch wanted to block out a character, he first seized on the character’s essential position and then progressed to his more individual traits. From the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Things are never as simple as they should be. The Kaplans have come to a secluded house in the Pacific Northwest for a summer getaway--a chance for ...

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro didn't set out to become a novelist. In the 1960s, he came to San Francisco from England with his acoustic guitar, hoping to make it as a singer-songwriter.

In a new memoir, “Novelist as a Vocation,” the Japanese writer reflects on his craft and his career. By Charles Finch When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

“Manhattan is just all bank branches,” said Jonathan Franzen as he walked through the living room of his home in Santa Cruz, California. When he visits his former neighborhood on the Upper East Side ...

The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The decisions you make in this game will define your family's lives, but they may also ...

18 months ago, south London MC Novelist passed on some good advice to NME: “You don’t have to talk for conversation’s sake, ever,” he said. “You choose what you want to say.” Almost four years on from ...