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…
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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…
Book Review – Let Me Be Frank With You – Richard Ford This is fourth book in what was originally a completed trilogy by Ford – three iconic and truly…
Ah, where to start on this entangled, undisciplined, dissonant, amazing carnivore of a book? A ragged, shredded, broken-toothed affair, a story of Australia related by a melange of unpredictable and…
Book review – & Sons by David Gilbert The first thing that announces this book is the cover, itself almost worth the price. It is an utterly arresting shot of…
Book Review – The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis I while ago I posted a little missive about having to shed books that had outbred our groaning bookshelves. I spoke about…
Book review – Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem Some many years ago we had a New York visitor from the literary world (who later won a Pulitzer Prize – long…