Michael Ondaatje is a quiet writer. He’s certainly equal to grand, sweeping, historical subjects — civil war in Sri Lanka, the closing days of World War II — but the sound of advancing armies doesn’t ...

Michael Ondaatje never writes the same book twice. From the sweeping World War II tragedy of "The English Patient" to the bifurcated contemporary narrative of "Divisadero," or "In the Skin of a Lion," ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Travel by boat over long distances holds for me a romance, an implicit extravagance, that exceeds even ...

Michael Ondaatje's new novel "The Cat's Table" is a shipboard story about a boy's travel's from Ceylon to England. Jeffrey Brown and Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient," discuss the ...