30 January, 2012
You Are What You Read
Jeffrey Eugenides's The Marriage Plot revels in the meeting points between life and art.
Category: Fiction
16 January, 2012
A Conspiracy of Texts
Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery negotiates the complexities of European anti-Semitism.
28 November, 2011
Committed Fiction
China Miéville's Embassytown takes us to Arieka, a planet on which humans live among an indigenous population.
14 November, 2011
The Frost of Winter
A new edition of Dorothy Edwards' Winter Sonata brings an overlooked modernist classic in from the cold.
31 October, 2011
The Dark Art
Amol Rajan's Twirlymen and Shehan Karunatilaka's Chinaman explore cricket's most arcane skill: the art of spin bowling.
27 June, 2011
To Crack the Heart
Hisham Matar's Anatomy of a Disappearance imagines the life of the son of a vanished dissident.
Something Better than Empire
Sam Lipsyte's The Ask and Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story interrogate contemporary America's self-image.
Unrealistic Innocence
Roland Barthes's The Preparation of the Novel hesitates on the verge of beginning to write.
13 June, 2011
More Caterpillar Than Butterfly But, My, What A Cocoon
David Foster Wallace's The Pale King seeks joy beyond the boredom of bureaucracy.
