The title of Michael Ondaatje's atmospheric new novel — Warlight — refers most directly to the dimmed lights that guided emergency traffic during wartime blackouts, but it applies equally to the cloak ...

It happens in the time it takes to read a phrase: an epileptic seizure described as “some deadly shore recently passed.” You understand that the work you’re reading is both more complicated and more ...

‘We have no memories from our childhood,” said Freud, “only memories that pertain to our childhood.” It feels like this idea – that memory is the construct of the older self looking back – has been ...

Editor's note: Michael Ondaatje was recently voted winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize, which celebrated 50 years of the Booker Prize, for his novel "The English Patient." Not long after, his latest ...

Michael Ondaatje’s new novel, “Warlight,” his first in seven years, has the immediate allure of a dark fairy tale. “In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been ...

A boy alone in postwar London is drawn into shadowy worlds in this suspenseful yet frustrating story from the English Patient author Michael Ondaatje likes writing about uncertainties, mysteries and ...

In Michael Ondaatje’s new book, warlight is the word for the twilight that shrouded London during the bombings of World War II, when lights were dimmed to avoid lighting the way for German bombs. It’s ...

Michael Ondaatje’s new novel, “Warlight,” (Knopf, $26.95, 304 pages), his first in seven years, has the immediate allure of a dark fairy tale. “In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of ...

Michael Ondaatje's Warlight is the lushly told story of a young man trying to understand his strange childhood. In the days following the Second World War, Nathaniel and his sister are abandoned by ...

The title of Michael Ondaatje's atmospheric new novel — Warlight — refers most directly to the dimmed lights that guided emergency traffic during wartime blackouts, but it applies equally to the cloak ...