Facebook
X
LinkdIn
Copy Link
Novel
Annihilation is far from faultless. Yet it’s a novel of massive ambition
Sally Rooney’s fourth novel is another case of compare and contrast, with various pairings of anxious characters struggling through their twenties and thirties in picturesque Dublin
The memoir is less a life story than an investigation into the chain reaction of who (and how) the writer is
The novel’s central conceit serves as a sharp satire of our data-driven, algorithmic age
Lesley McDowell restores Lord Byron’s young lover and Mary Shelley’s step-sister to thrilling, palpitating life
Water is both the unifying image and the dominant concern of There Are Rivers in the Sky
The Heart in Winter is a rambunctious galumph of a story
Narratives, counter-narratives, twists and frenzied bouts of cleaning up the timeline ensue
Conflicting ideals of old-school socialism and modern identity politics are fought out against a background of urban desolation worthy of Dickens
In The Sleepwalkers, Thomas insistently and cleverly shows that a novel can do what a series screenplay can’t or won’t
