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Le Mauricien votre nom d'utilisateur Récupérer votre mot de passe votre email votre nom d'utilisateur votre email Récupérer votre mot de passe votre email 29 Déc 2020 16h38 And how revealing. That every story can fit one (or more) of these seven plots. Take two well-known novels: Roy’s The God of Small Things, and Filer’s The Shock of the Fall. Both begin with the appearance of a dead body, an event shrouded in mystery, creating enough intrigue to secure the reader’s attention, or provide what we writers know as the ‘hook’. The narratives retrace the cause of death, and in th...

Summer is the time for holidays and travel. But as we weakly wave goodbye (we hope) to the horrors of 2020, international travel is off the table and even domestic travel is still restricted. A book is still your most faithful companion on summer journeys, even if that trip is limited to the journey between the kitchen and a sun lounge in the backyard. Curated here is a mix tape of great literary road trips. There is one oldie but goodie, some 21st-century hits and shout-outs to the authors who mapped the way. Buckle up — or curl up — and enjoy. Our journey begins with The Canterbury Ta...

The gold in this year’s Christmas TV schedules. 19 December 2020 Phantom Thread (2017) Christmas is traditionally a time for being stuck indoors, and if 2020 has already made us more familiar with our own 4 walls than most of us ever hoped to be, at least the promise of some festive viewing is the one thing COVID can’t ride roughshod over this year. As always, the TV schedules are stuffed tighter than a turkey with films old and new, offering a fairly safe but oh-so comforting platter of premieres, perennials and – just occasionally – some more offbeat pleasures too. Ar...