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In this month's edition of "Open Book," debut novelist James Frankie Thomas sounds off on Donna Tartt, "American Pastoral," and gay yearning.

Eric Ormsby on the collected novels and stories of William Maxwell.

The country is supposedly religious but characterised by runaway corruption, tribalism, prebendalism, grabbing of public land.

“Diary of a Film,” a novel by Niven Govinden, follows a film director struggling to balance his artistry with real life.

Unique Portlaoise poetry and picture exhibition on lives of women

Central to Diary of a Film is the question: how do you reconcile life and art, and not settle for a life deferred while art is being made? Maestro’s film is widely expected to win the major prize at the festival, but he is as unsettled and subdued as the director/protagonist of Federico Fellini’s 8 ½. Wandering the streets before the screening, a chance encounter with a stranger, Cosima, appears to sweep away any threat of melancholia and gives him a sense of direction for his ne...

Niven Govinden’s Diary of a Film is a beautiful, poignant novel of love and longing 5/5 This tale of a director beguilingly captures the agony of making a film – and letting the public see it 20 February 2021 • 6:00am Timothée Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name, which parallels Diary of a Film  Credit: Film Review Call Me By Your Name “I flew to the Italian city of B. to attend the film festival in late March,” begins the unnamed narrator of Niven Govinden’s slender, beguiling new n...