2 December, 2012
In Love With Cromwell
Bring Up the Bodies brings Hilary Mantel's trilogy even closer to its timely hero, writes Emma Park.
Category: Fiction
18 November, 2012
No Fault of Their Own
Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods is breezy and biting, a schizophrenic variation from her first novel, says Christy Edwall.
Just Like the Cliché
Angus Brown asks, is A Naked Singularity another entry in the long postmodern American novel, or something else entirely?
4 November, 2012
A Geometry of His Own
In The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles, Sarah Hopkins finds characters shadowed by the certainty of their own destruction.
22 October, 2012
Willesden Redux
Zadie Smith's NW adds nothing to the modernist experimentalism she emulates, writes Sam Caleb.
7 October, 2012
His Days are Numbered
José María Merino experiments with form and narrative persona in this constellation of microfictions, El libro de las horas contadas.
2 July, 2012
A Weird Significance
José Saramago's The Lives of Things is a newly published translation of uncanny short stories from the late-1970s.
4 June, 2012
Re-Carving
Nathan Englander's What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank is a worthy homage to Raymond Carver.
21 May, 2012
Friends in High Places
Alexandra Shulman's Can We Still Be Friends is a Cameronite retrospective of Thatcherism that rehearses familiar prejudices.
A Very Long Engagement
Nadine Gordimer's No Time Like the Present is a subtle attempt to surpass the revolutionary fatigue of modern South Africa.
