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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On March 5, the first online meeting of Moira’s Seattle Times Book Club took place, with a discussion of Michael Ondaatje’s novel “Warlight.” Set in postwar London, the book delves into the shadows ...

Michael Ondaatje’s “Warlight” was inspired by an idea that became the novel’s first line: “In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.” His books ...

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 is full of misdirections - stories within stories. As a reader, at first I wasn't quite sure where I was headed. And Ondaatje told me when he started writing this, he wasn ...

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 ...

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 ...

This new novel, Warlight, is a bit more conventional, though its narrative is circular and kaleidoscopic rather than chronological. The action takes place mostly during and right after the second ...