Michael Ondaatje’s new book, A Year of Last Things, opens with a poem called “Definition”, in which a reader takes an afternoon “stroll” through “the plotless thirteen hundred pages of ...

A spellbinding writer, Ondaatje exhibits a poet's sensibility and... Michael Ondaatje, read by the author. Random House Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $35 ISBN 978-0-307-94371-2 It only adds ...

With The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje creates a poetic, fragmented masterpiece that won the Booker Prize the year it was published. This captivating novel tells the story of the intertwined ...

Michael Ondaatje — a former Unbound Book Festival keynote speaker — returns once again to his first love, poetry. Although a companion across the decades, the form is less attached to his name ...

The English Patient is a much feted film adaptation by Anthony Minghella of Michael Ondaatje’s novel of the same name. Its title, however, has a worrying contemporary resonance. All is not well ...