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).
  • 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!
  • "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."
  • "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.
  • Man, oh manifesto!

    A brash band of young writers issues a screed against "dinosaur" authors and calls for a return to storytelling.
  • 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?
  • Beach nut

    An interview with Alex Garland, bestselling and occasionally controversial author of "The Beach."
  • "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.
  • A good man is hard to write

    Hemingway-tough or Fitzgerald-sensitive? Today's novelists scramble for a masculinity that doesn't seem fake.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Tesseract

    Stephanie Zacharek reviews 'The Tesseract' by Alex Garland.
  • 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.
  • "Bitch"

    "Bitch" is an excerpt from Alex Garland's novel "The Beach".
  • 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.

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