Reviews
Tim Parks travels to the end of his mind in search of a little peace and quiet.
Read MoreStephen Marche thinks it’s the Golden Age of reading and writing. Howard Jacobson thinks readers are disappearing and fiction is “fooked” (as they say in England). Stan Persky investigates.
Read MoreStephen Greenblatt tells the story of a Renaissance book-hunter’s trip to the library. Stan Persky looks at Greenblatt’s “The Swerve” and the pushback from its critics.
Read MoreBrian Fawcett offers a review of George Bowering’s Pinboy
Read MoreStan Persky reads a long biography of Richard Brautigan.
Read MoreJohn Harris takes on Charlotte Gill’s award winning book on treeplanting. He thinks it’s pretty good, but better on forestry and treeplanting than on the treeplanters themselves.
Read MoreTerry Glavin doesn’t see Afghanistan the way the mass media and the progressive left do. Brian Fawcett thinks he’s got it right, and that we’re all involved.
Read MoreStan Persky assesses Christopher Bram’s history of contemporary gay writing.
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