Book Review – Florida by Lauren Groff Steven Boykey Sidley If you put a gun to my head and asked – best novel in the last decade –…
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A review – Caliphate, a New York Times podcast Moving from my usual book reviews to a new media, I must talk about Caliphate, an NYT podcast, similarly feted…
Book Review – Levels of Life by Julian Barnes © Steven Boykey SIdley One of the great good fortunes of my life is that I have never been visited by…
Book Review – Milkman by Anna Burns (winner of the Booker Prize 2018) © Steven Boykey SIdley On numerous occasions since I was a pubescent tyke I have attempted to…
E.L. Doctorow died yesterday. As a teenager, I had been happily snacking my way through fine mid-level fiction from Alex Haley and James Michener when I stumbled upon Doctorow’s Ragtime….
Book Review – City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg 944 pages. Really large. Large in ambition and character and plot and language and emotional scope. So large, that a…
Book Review – Everybody’s Fool by Richard Russo Richard Russo sits pretty much at the apex of American literature. Much beloved, Pulitzer-garlanded and graced with a 20 year history of…
Book Review – The Safest Place You Know by Mark Winkler This is an astonishing South African novel. Some time ago I reviewed Winkler’s Wasted, which was a disturbing pleasure…
Book Review – Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer There is a sub-sub genre of American literature, a shelf labelled the American Jewish Experience. As short as this…
Book Review – Nutshell by Ian McEwan After panting and wheezing my way though a couple of doorstop books (not all of which did their weight justice), I was relieved…