A barren prospect
In many ways this is a very old-fashioned novel. Jerome is 53, and a lacklustre professor at Columbia; his wife,…
Homer Simpson in a chasuble
This is one of the most remarkable, hilarious, jaw-droppingly candid and affecting memoirs I have read for some time —…
A surreal caprice
At the start of this novella the protagonist, Thibaut, is ambushed by Wehrmacht soldiers between the ninth and tenth arrondissements.…
A surreal caprice
At the start of this novella the protagonist, Thibaut, is ambushed by Wehrmacht soldiers between the ninth and tenth arrondissements.…
Everyday unhappiness
This is an extraordinarily compelling novel for one in which nothing really happens but everything changes. Sara Baume’s narrator is…
Everyday unhappiness
This is an extraordinarily compelling novel for one in which nothing really happens but everything changes. Sara Baume’s narrator is…
Weird and wonderful
The Un-Discovered Islands could not be more different in substance — though it is similar in style — to Malachy…
Rich in legend and song
There is an immediate problem for anyone producing a guide to places in Scotland with literary connections: as Walter Scott…
Into a cloud-scratched sky
There have been a number of attempts to graft the style of the so-called new nature writing onto the novel:…
