writers

Who Wrote the Story of Abraham and Isaac?

  “I didn’t think he’d do it. I really didn’t think he would.” That’s how I open my book, with ...

Who Are Your Characters Really?

It’s amazing how many North Londoners have taken me aside in a furtive, conspiratorial kind of manner, in order to ...

How Did I End up Doing This?

Joshua Henkin’s new novel, The World Without You, is now available. For a long time I wanted to be a fiction ...

It Takes Two

As a writer, I’ve paid scant attention to the images that accompany my work. I’m usually too preoccupied with the ...

Why I Write

Maybe there are four or five people on earth for whom writing is effortless and never heartbreaking. I don’t know ...