Nobody’s Novel
/In Anna North's new novel, many narrative voices attempt to tell the story of film director Sophie Stark - but can any number of perspectives reveal an essentially unknowable character? Katie Gemmill reviews.
Read MoreScala or Piolo? The Painstaking Brilliance of Alessandro Manzoni
/Poet, dramatist, and author of the great Italian novel I promessi sposi, Alessandro Manzoni led a life as fascinating as his fiction. Luciano Mangiafico tells the story of the Father of Italian Prose.
Read MoreBook Review: The Eye Stone
/A young monk goes on a desperate quest in the 12th century - to a fable city called Venetia
Read MoreBook Review: An Ember in the Ashes
/A plucky, unlikely teen heroine and a brooding, idealistic teen hero form an unlikely relationship as they fight the oppression of their world in ... well, every single YA novel ever written, including this one.
Read MoreBook Review: The Vorrh
/At the heart of this astounding work of fantasy broods a jungle called the Vorrh, a forest so unending that it warps time and steals souls.
Read MoreBook Review: Colossus
/An Indian driver and his enormous war-elephant experience the treacheries and triumphs of Alexander the Great's Babylon campaign
Read MoreBook Review: You Will Never Find Me
/Charles Boxer and Mercy Danquah are both kidnap specialists who've solved many tough cases. But in their latest, the missing person is their own daughter - and she doesn't want to be found
Read MoreBook Review: The Death's Head Chess Club
/Two men meet by chance in a 1960s cafe - and remember a time twenty years earlier when they were captor and prisoner at Auschwitz
Read MoreBook Review: Vanishing
/Is the artist painting heath landscapes in England during World War II a mild-mannered hero of military campaigns or a spy? Gerard Woodward's spellbinding novel starts there and then travels over the whole of an improbable life story
Read MoreThe Great Blacksby
/If Richard Pryor had spent time in the ghettos of L.A. County and had any interest in writing a novel, he might have come up with a book like Paul Beatty's The Sellout: a beautifully offensive meditation on riches and race.
Read More“Are You Living or Dead?”
/Usually Kazuo Ishiguro’s narrators implicate us in their world, reminding us of all we have in common. But in his new novel we are strangers looking at an unrecognizable landscape.
Read MoreBook Review: Of Noble Family
/Mary Robinette Kowal's sparkling "Glamourist" fantasy series comes to a complex and intriguing conclusion
Read MoreBook Review: Lucky Alan and Other Stories
/Jonathan Lethem's latest book continues his project of combining the literary and the pulpy - Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: How To Carry Bigfoot Home
/Giant eels, dragon-scammers, and of course Sasquatch himself feature in Chris Tarry's delightfully gonzo debut short story collection
Read MoreBook Review: The Dream Lover
/The passionate, unconventional life of novelist George Sand forms the backdrop for Elizabeth Berg's new novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering
/In the dystopian future of Jeffrey Rotter's fantastic novel, Copernican astronomy has been forgotten - but its secrets lie buried under what was once Florida
Read MoreBook Review: Lurid & Cute
/The main character of Adam Thirlwell's new novel has no redeeming qualities whatsoever - and he's sinfully easy to read about
Read MoreProtean Things
/Hilary Mantel's best-selling Tudor novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, have made their way to the stage on the expert handling of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Zach Rabiroff had front row center.
Read MoreBook Review: The Last Word
/The incestuously-close relationship between a literary biographer and his subject lies at the heart of Hanif Kureishi's new novel
Read More“Il n’y a pas d’Israël pour moi”
/In Michel Houellebecq’s uncannily timely new novel, the triumph of an Islamist government relieves the dreary banality that defines the secular France of the 21st century.
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