Too much of everything
Arundhati Roy has published only one previous novel, but that one, The God of Small Things, won the Booker Prize.…
Speckled Footman and Maiden’s Blush
Last year, I attempted to pass through security in an American airport carrying a small black box, containing eight batteries…
A study in alienation
Looking for the Outsider is the biography of a novel, from conception through publication to critical reception. Alice Kaplan’s life-story…
The great Dadaist novel
Anicet is, as its cover proclaims, a Dadaist novel, reissued on the centenary of its composition. Louis Aragon would doubtless…
