Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway - review by D D Guttenplan
D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway. In May 1966, an aggrieved John le Carré wrote to the editor of the Soviet newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta in response to …
Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire
The arrival of each new David Hepworth book is not unlike the release of the albums about which he writes with such precision and rigour. Hotly anticipated by the nostalgic ageing and the …
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The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller - review by Stevie Davies
Andrew Miller’s moving new novel is set in the ‘Big Freeze’ of 1962–3, Britain’s coldest winter since 1739. From December through to February, there was no let-up. Snowdrifts formed walls …
What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost
While Shakespeare seems to maintain the status of perennial contemporary, Milton does not enjoy quite the same standing. The knotty theological wrangling and offensively strict gender …
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Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox - review by Tim Whitmarsh
Homer’s Iliad, a poem perched on the cusp of recorded history, is as enigmatic as it is magnificent.Like the earliest parts of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Koran, the …
The Party by Tessa Hadley - review by Louis Rogers
The slightly bland, slightly intriguing title of Tessa Hadley’s new novella suits her unassuming but compelling style. The first section of The Party opens with what would seem to be the main …
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng - review by Tom Williams
T ensions between the public and the private lie at the heart of Tan Twan Eng’s The House of Doors, a novel predominantly set in Penang in 1921 and immersed in the social mores of the …