Joanna Scott: Arrogance
The latest addition to my website is Joanna Scott's Arrogance, another superb novel by Scott, this one being about the Austrian artist Egon Schiele, who died aged twenty-eight during the…
The latest addition to my website is Joanna Scott's Arrogance, another superb novel by Scott, this one being about the Austrian artist Egon Schiele, who died aged twenty-eight during the…
The latest addition to my website is Xiaolu Guo's 我心中的石头镇 (Village of Stone). She is one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. This novel was the last of several that…
The latest addition to my website is François Mauriac's La Fin de la nuit (The End of the Night). This is a follow-up to his Thérèse Desqueyroux (Therese; later: Therese…
The latest addition to my website is A. M. Homes' Jack, her first novel. It is certainly an enjoyable novel, though the humour is not nearly as black as her…
The latest addition to my website is Marcu Biancarelli's Pegasi astru virtuali (51 Pegasi, astre virtuel) [51 Pegasi, Virtual Star], the first Corsican novel on my site. Frankly, it is…
I do not subscribe to many magazines but one I read avidly is La Quinzaine littéraire. It has been edited and published by the first-class publisher, Maurice Nadeau, since 1966.…
The latest addition to my website is David Szalay's The Innocent. Szalay is another of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. This novel is written from the perspective of a committed…
The other day we went to an exhibition of the superb paintings of the very wonderful Anne-Catherine Phillips. We have two of her paintings in our house and would have…
The latest addition to my website is Peter Handke's Kali [Potash]. This book, which has not been translated into English (though has been translated into Danish, Dutch, French and Italian),…
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Roegiers' Le Bonheur des Belges [The Happiness of the Belgians]. It is both a response to Hugo Claus' Het verdriet van België…