Alex Garland

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Danny Boyle talks about shooting his Dickensian quiz-show saga "Slumdog Millionaire" on the streets of Mumbai (a podcast and interview).
By Andrew O'Hehir Nov 12, 2008

  • What to Read

    Alex "The Beach" Garland spins a chiller about a man waking from a coma, Colm Toibin explores the tragic sensibility of Henry James, and Geoff Nicholson gives us English people being very bad. Plus: A teenage female Holden Caulfield -- no, really!
    By Salon's critics July 7, 2004

  • "The Coma" by Alex Garland

    A man wakes after a brutal subway assault to a world that isn't quite right, in this brief but unputdownable summer read from the author of "The Beach."
    By Scott Lamb July 7, 2004

  • "28 Days Later"

    This apocalypse flick from director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland offers astonishing images of Britain devastated by plague-ridden zombies. But it lacks the maniacal airlessness of the "Living Dead" series it rips off.
    By Andrew O'Hehir June 27, 2003

  • Man, oh manifesto!

    A brash band of young writers issues a screed against "dinosaur" authors and calls for a return to storytelling.
    By Lev Grossman November 2, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    A good nanny is hard to find -- so is a good employer. Plus: Lonely Planet writer defends guidebooks from author of "The Beach"; should celebrities' writings remain private?
    Letters to the editor February 15, 2000

  • Beach nut

    An interview with Alex Garland, bestselling and occasionally controversial author of "The Beach."
    By Sue Wheat February 11, 2000

  • "The Beach"

    No phone, no lights, no motorcar -- not a single luxury! Leonardo DiCaprio and the "Trainspotting" creators can't rescue Alex Garland's trouble-in-paradise bestseller from trite moralizing.
    By Stephanie Zacharek February 11, 2000

  • A good man is hard to write

    Hemingway-tough or Fitzgerald-sensitive? Today's novelists scramble for a masculinity that doesn't seem fake.
    By Jonathan Miles December 2, 1999

  • Backstage on "The Beach"

    A backpacker's quest to storm Leonardo DiCaprio's movie set ends in an epiphany that won't play in Peoria.
    By Rolf Potts February 10, 1999

  • Storming 'The Beach'

    When he tries to infiltrate a movie set on a heavily guarded Thai island, Rolf Potts embarks on a rollicking post-modern travel adventure, somewhat starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
    By Rolf Potts January 30, 1999

  • The Tesseract

    Stephanie Zacharek reviews 'The Tesseract' by Alex Garland.
    By Stephanie Zacharek January 29, 1999

  • Bad juju in Paradise

    Alex Garland's astonishing first novel echoes "Dog Soldiers" and "Lord of the Flies" in its discovery of the hell that lurks in paradise.
    By Richard Gehr February 11, 1997

  • "Bitch"

    "Bitch" is an excerpt from Alex Garland's novel "The Beach".
    By Alex Garland February 11, 1997

  • Beach Boy

    26-year-old Alex Garland, author of the harrowing novel "The Beach," talks about the quest for mystery in a world that's too well known.
    By Dwight Garner February 11, 1997
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