A collection of 203 posts
Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale.
Michel Houellebecq’s new memoir reveals a man quick to find fault with others but slow to accept responsibility for his woes.
A look back at William Goldman’s bonkers metafictional novel ‘The Princess Bride,’ which later became a much-loved family film.
Before finding fame as a children’s author, Dahl penned the first novel on nuclear war to be published after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
At its best, Amis’s fiction broke open the locked door behind which our culture tries to keep its skeletons hidden.
An eagerly awaited new edition of Gerald Nicosia’s splendid Kerouac biography provides the definitive portrait of a great artist and a profoundly troubled man.
How the books of George Baxt and Joseph Hansen changed the genre.
How ‘Gidget’ helped to put surfing on the map.
Joseph Wambaugh’s crime fiction has been much imitated but seldom equalled.
Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.
An excerpt from 'The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos.'
John Mortimer’s fictional barrister was—like his creator—a rogue redeemed by a fierce commitment to the presumption of innocence.
Three Cheers for Harry Flashman!
A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children’
It is time to consider retiring awards segregated by the sex of the author.