One scarcely recognizes Drabble's (The Witch of Exmoor, etc.) customary satirical verve in this thinly veiled fictional account of her mother's life. According to the author's afterword, it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This book cover image released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux shows "The Dark Flood Rises," a novel by Margaret Drabble. (Farrar, ...

One scarcely recognizes Drabble's (The Witch of Exmoor, etc.) customary satirical verve in this thinly veiled fictional account of her mother's life. According to the author's afterword, it was ...

When I think of the writers I worshiped when I was starting out in life, I always think of Margaret Drabble. She was 20 years older than I, but the serious, hip, intellectual British novelist whose ...

Kevin Fagan was the youngest syndicated cartoonist in the country when he introduced the comic strip Drabble in 1979; the Sun-Times quickly picked it up and I’ve been reading it ever since. For years ...

Norman Drabble hasn’t aged much over the years but “Drabble,” the comic strip that bears his name, turns 40 today — not that Kevin Fagan planned to make any fuss about it. But his son, Brian Fagan, ...

"The Pattern in the Carpet/A Personal History With Jigsaws" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 350 pages, $25), by Margaret Drabble. "The Children's Book" (Alfred A. Knopf, 675 pages, $26.95), by A.S. Byatt: ...

Cartoonist Kevin Fagan grew up idolizing Charles M. Schulz and “Peanuts.” Now that his own comic strip, “Drabble,” is turning 45 this week, Fagan is contemplating his long run in the funny pages and ...

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins,” T.S. Eliot wrote in “The Waste Land.” In “The Pattern in the Carpet,” Margaret Drabble uses the jigsaw puzzle, its history and its pieces, as her own ...