From LRB, for his Nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene fields: A review of William Shakespeare, Complete Works: The RSC Shakespeare. A review of Shakespeare the Thinker by A.D. Nuttall. The readiness to deconstruct is all: Carlin Romano Shakespeare's Philosophy by Colin McGinn. One Family Tree's Deep Shadows: Three generations and several cataclysms later, Dostoevsky's once-communist great-grandson embraces his towering ancestor.
From FT, compared with their forebears, modern literary heroines are spoiled for choice. But when it comes to a good story, is love the only thing that matters? Women taking wheel from men on noir's dark streets: A review of books. In his debut novel Lost City Radio , Daniel Alarcón reminds us that one man's freedom fighter is probably another woman's husband, another boy's father. Beautiful boy's boredom leads to rabies scare: A review of Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road has not only been a best seller. It has also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. It's even an Oprah's Book Club pick. Not bad, considering what a lousy book it is.
Why Not the Worst? Bad books are an essential weapon in the struggle against the tyranny of good taste. Sick of the country and its dream The best American fiction reveals a nation intent on sincere soul-searching in Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists 2, and Sam Leith explains why Granta's new editor is the envy of the book world. Lionel Shriver explains why reviewing is a dangerous game for a novelist - and why she continues to land-mine her literary future.
The 17th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair was more than just a book fair. It is a part of a larger plan to position the Emirate as the hub of global culture in the Arab World. Considering so many of us spend our days toiling in offices, where are the great novels of working life? D J Taylor surveys over a century of fiction and finds a disturbing reality gap Urgent message to publishers: Enough already with the endless procession of memoirs. Just because they're dead easy to churn out doesn't mean the world is waiting.
File under other: How do libraries — institutions that by nature require a strict, stately style of micromanagement — assimilate these self-published and occasionally category-defying dispatches from the cultural hinterlands? A review of The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting. And taxing times: A desk piled high with paperwork is a fearful thing – mountains of official letters with mind-numbing questions demanding an answer
