experimental fiction

On the track of a mysterious recluse: Maxwell’s Demon, by Steven Hall, reviewed

13 February 2021 9:00 am

This is not the age of experimental fiction — it’s Franzen’s, not Foster Wallace’s. That shift was on its cusp…

Is China Miéville becoming a bit too inscrutable?

12 March 2016 9:00 am

China Miéville’s work is invariably clever, inevitably dense and usually interwoven with hard-left political and social concerns, but its author…