I so desperately want to love this book and much like bumping into Catherine Zeta-Jones in a hotel lobby, I want it to love me back instantly, thus sealing our ...
“We’ll continue to send a portrait of our best selves into space, a declaration that we were here, that we strove for understanding, that we often failed and occasionally succeed. ...
Why do cults so fascinate the reading public, and why, when actual history begs one’s imagination with its rawness, does fiction carry such great weight in their portrayal? ...
Two stylish feminist heroines, two chunky 400-page literary historical novels, both published on the same day. What’s not to like? Continue Reading Book Review: Sarah Perry’s The Essex ...
Xenobe Purvis reviews Julian Barnes’s impressionistic biography of Dmitri Shostakovich, his first novel since 2011’s Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. Continue Reading Power and Irony: The Noise ...
Internet book reviews are a wonderful thing. But if you’re going to write a review, writes Eleanor Franzen, there are a few ground rules that you ought to follow. ...
Gina Mussio revisits Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2013 novel. Continue Reading Revisiting The Goldfinch
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Struggling against a city in financial decline and still reeling from the wounds of civil unrest, the Turner siblings are faced with a dilemma. The family home their parents worked ...
Growing up in a stifling upper class family in rural Lancashire, Leonora was born a rebel. A source of endless frustration to industrial magnate Harold Carrington, the father she both ...
Moments of brilliance are balanced against frustrating weaker material in this collection of short stories. Continue Reading Book Review: Stay Up With Me by Tom Barbash
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Is Wild Ink a mystery, a black comedy about those on the fringes of society, or an alternative thriller about terrorism in London? Continue Reading Book Review: Wild ...
David Mitchell’s ambitious new novel addresses the metaphysical, but is grounded in a realism that both disturbs and amuses. Continue Reading Book Review: The Bone Clocks by David ...
Published for the first time in English, Ismail Kadare’s exploration of writing, realism and censorship moves between the everyday and mythic in Soviet Moscow. Continue Reading Book Review: ...
A look back at how Boris Vian makes words dance in this jazz age classic. Continue Reading Books in Review: Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian
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Seventeenth-century Amsterdam is vividly brought to life in this this entertaining debut novel. Continue Reading Book Review: The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
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Judgement, morality, and the difference between right and wrong take centre stage in this cerebral thriller. Continue Reading Book Review: The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
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An engaging memoir on life in the advertising world reveals it’s not all Don Draper and mohair suits. Continue Reading Book Review: Sad Men by Dave Roberts
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Teju Cole’s latest novel explores one man’s conflicted sense of home and belonging through the psychogeography of Lagos. Continue Reading Book Review: Every Day is for the Thief ...
Employing Celine Dion as a cultural barometer, Carl Wilson asks why we love the music we love in this excellent collection on taste, snobbery and coolness. Continue Reading ...
Unthank Books’ latest collection of short stories addresses the prevailing mood of uncertainty, doubt and loss in today’s world with skill and aplomb. Continue Reading Book Review: Unthology ...
