Topic: “Novels”
Reconsiderations June 2021
Society vanishes
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On the novels of Louis Auchincloss.
Reflections June 2021
The cooling of John le Carré
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On the British spy novelist.
Books April 2021
Philip Roth’s plot against himself
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Features March 2021
The morality of the fat Owl
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On Frank Richards’s Billy Bunter series.
Reconsiderations February 2021
Isabel Colegate endures
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On the eighty-nine-year-old novelist’s best books.
Reflections January 2021
The ordinary ennobled
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On Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Reconsiderations February 2019
Sylvia & Michael on Sinister Street
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On the novels of Compton Mackenzie.
Oct 26, 2018
Week in review
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On the ghosts of Kirk, a séance for Gaskell, the trouble with Trilling & more.
Notes & Comments September 2018
V. S. Naipaul, 1932–2018
On the late Trinidadian-British writer.