Jim Sheridan and Peter Carey, director of the film In the Name of the Father and author of the novel Amnesia, respectively, have both lived through many world events surrounding an abuse of power that have a major effect on the central characters...

Peter Carey’s collections of short stories explore societal expectations and subvert gender roles against a surrealist and/or dystopian background. In The Fat Man in History, we enter a reactionary society in which the conquering “Fat Americans”...