31 October, 2011
Tim Smith-Laing
A.N. Wilson's Dante in Love shows genuine love and learning of the Commedia, yet struggles to contain Dante’s world.
Mike Jakeman
Amol Rajan's Twirlymen and Shehan Karunatilaka's Chinaman explore cricket's most arcane skill: the art of spin bowling.
17 October, 2011
Rachel Abramowitz
Ben Lerner's Mean Free Path finds the poetry of physics via the physics of poetry, drawing on the struggle of both pursuits.
27 June, 2011
Yasmine Seale
Hisham Matar's Anatomy of a Disappearance imagines the life of the son of a vanished dissident.
Alexandra Manglis
Stanley Cavell reveals himself in the interruptions of his autobiography Little Did I Know.
Mike Jakeman
Sam Lipsyte's The Ask and Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story interrogate contemporary America's self-image.
Tom Cutterham
Roland Barthes's The Preparation of the Novel hesitates on the verge of beginning to write.
13 June, 2011
Tom Tracey
David Foster Wallace's The Pale King seeks joy beyond the boredom of bureaucracy.
Caroline Ardrey
Karl Kirchwey's new translation of Poèmes saturniens playfully yet faithfully renders Paul Verlaine's adolescent verse.
