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Yann Martel has done a fair bit of traveling in his life, and that globetrotting is evident in the settings of his books, from Life of Pi’s Indian Ocean to the stories making up The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, which take place in Helsinki, Washington DC, and Malaysia. Martel, born in Salamanca, Spain, educated […]

In the opening pages of Sleep, the tension-filled new novel by Nino Ricci, David Pace is driving home from the Toronto Zoo with his young son. David falls asleep behind the wheel – maybe for a moment, maybe more – and might have narrowly avoided a serious accident. He can’t be sure what he experienced […]