Cormac McCarthy: Stella Maris
The latest addition to my website is Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris. As he is ninety, this may well be his last novel and he definitely goes out with a grim…
Cormac McCarthy: The Passenger
The latest addition to my website is Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger. Published when he was eighty-nine, it is clear that McCarthy can still write a first-class novel. Our hero is…
A. M. Homes: The Unfolding
The latest addition to my website is A. M. Homes' The Unfolding. Homes tells two linked stories relating to the Hitchens family. The family is the Big Guy (we never…
Jonathan Franzen: Crossroads
The latest addition to my website is Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads. This is another huge book from Franzen telling the story of a dysfunctional family (church minister father, mother, three sons…
Susan Daitch: Siege of Comedians
The latest addition to my website is Susan Daitch's Siege of Comedians. This is a superb and highly complex novel with three main characters and lots of secondary ones. We…
Richard Powers: Bewilderment
The latest addition to my website is Richard Powers' Bewilderment. This is another superb novel from Powers, about a widower, Theo, an astrobiologist bringing up a highly intelligent and very…
Kazuo Ishiguro: Klara and the Sun
The latest addition to my website is Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun. The novel is set in the not too distant further in the United States and tells the…
Don DeLillo: The Silence
The latest addition to my website is Don DeLillo's The Silence. This is an-the-end-of-the-world-may-be-nearer-than-you-think novel. Two couples and a solo man are to meet to watch the Superbowl on 6…
Marilynne Robinson: Jack
The latest addition to my website is Marilynne Robinson's Jack. This is the fourth book in Robinson's Gilead series. Unlike the others, none of it takes place in Gilead, Iowa,…
Shalom Auslander: Mother for Dinner
The latest addition to my website is Shalom Auslander's Mother for Dinner. This is a wickedly funny satire on identity politics and racism. Our hero is Seventh Seltzer and he…
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