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Older than yesterday: Richard Ford’s Let Me Be Frank With You
04 December 2014
Understated but surprising.
Books
MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood: Living in the end times
30 August 2013
A master artificer at work.
Culture
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld: A modern American fable about the danger of tempting fate
06 August 2013
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld.
Culture
Jazz: the transformation from subversive expression to mainstream entertainment
27 June 2013
New York is rhythm city.
Culture
Reviewed: Z: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
16 May 2013
Z: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald Therese Anne Fowler Two Roads, 384pp, £17.99 In 1923, T S Eliot wrote that...
Culture
Reviewed: A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
02 May 2013
A Delicate Truth John le Carré Viking, 336pp, £18.99 Behind the conspiracy that drives John le Carr...
Culture
Reviewed: O My America! Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler
27 March 2013
British women across the pond.
Culture
Reviewed: A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
21 February 2013
Crisis management.
Culture
American literature's encounters with solitude
31 January 2013
The stories that matter.
Books
Extracting the Michael
06 December 2012
Extracting the Michael.
Culture
Is "Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James a great American novel?
01 November 2012
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece Michael Gorra W W Norton, 416pp, £...
Books
A M Homes has written a kinder, gentler sort of satire
25 October 2012
May We Be Forgiven - review.
Books
Paul Auster has written a listless book, full of lists
13 September 2012
Winter Journal - review.
Books
Zoo Time - review
08 August 2012
Zoo Time Howard Jacobson Bloomsbury, 384pp, £18.99 When D H Lawrence’s short story collection England...
Culture
Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles - review
26 July 2012
Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles Mark Shiel Reaktion Bpoks, 336pp, £25 America’s romance with...

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