François Mauriac: La Pharisienne (A Woman of the Pharisees)
The latest addition to my website is
The latest addition to my website is
In the twentieth century, as far as I was concerned, the most interesting novel writing was coming from the United States. This is not to say that there was not…
The latest addition to my website is Kossi Efoui's La fabrique de cérémonies [The Ceremony Factory], the first Togolese novel on my website. It tells the story of Edgar Fall,…
The latest addition to my website is Jim Crace's Harvest. Crace has said that this is his final novel. It is an excellent novel, telling the story of an unnamed…
The Candidates for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature are always an interesting collection and I was glad to note that I have four of them on my site: César…
The latest addition to my website is Xiaolu Guo's 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. Though nominally written in English, it was in fact her first novel published in Chinese.…
I have to confess that we read the Telegraph at the weekend, primarily for the crossword, a Saturday morning treat, Helen Yemm's gardening column and, of course, to get a…
The latest addition to my website is Iván Thays' La disciplina de la vanidad [The Discipline of Vanity], a superb Peruvian post-modern novel about writers and writing. The nominal plot…
The latest addition to my website is Jim Crace's The Pesthouse. I have long held the view that the United States, a country which has passed from barbarism to decadence…
The latest addition to my website is Indriði G. Þorsteinsson/Indridii G Thorsteinsson's Norðan við stríð (North of War). This novel is based on a little-known episode of World War II,…