Fatema Ahmed
Fatema Ahmed is deputy editor at Apollo magazine and New Humanist’s lead fiction reviewer.
Articles by Fatema Ahmed
Jenny Diski’s brave scepticism
Jenny Diski's essays, fiction and non-fiction break down the idea of genre itself.
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Bengalis abroad: the fiction of Amit Chaudhuri
These semi-autobiographical novels make a case for another vision of literature and the world.
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Taking off the mask: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels
In these compelling books, the Italian writer - whose real identity is hidden - combines the novel with feminist polemic.
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Oddballs, loners and voyeurs
A prolific novelist and essayist, Muriel Spark disdained sentimentality – yet this masks just how strange her writing could be.
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The medium and the message
From his novels to his innovative use of social media, Teju Cole encourages his readers to think before they feel, writes Fatema Ahmed
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Here come the bohemians
Jonathan Lethem has become the leading American novelist of his generation by chronicling the hopes and failures of the Left, writes Fatema Ahmed
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The English visionary
For over forty years, Iain Sinclair’s work has combined obsessive myth-making with urban despair. But what do we know about him?
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