Edward St. Aubyn’s five-book cycle, the Patrick Melrose novels, published between 1992 and 2011 and now widely recognized as a classic of British literature, covers a lot of territory in the chronicle ...

Ruth Eglash (R) and The Media Line’s Felice Friedson, at Eglash’s Jerusalem home, July 2023. (Dario Sanchez/The Media Line) I’ve just finished reading Parallel Lines, a first novel by veteran ...

Death, psychosis, apocalypse — it’s a strong mixture for a novel. In the hands of a writer less capable than Edward St Aubyn, it would probably add up to a fatal dose for a book that you were actually ...

The reason for the disorientation soon becomes apparent. The book’s first chapter revolves around a young Englishman named Sebastian, who is schizophrenic and a patient in the suicide observation room ...