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Julian Barnes, Haruki Murakami, Dave Bidini and Dickens: all good, but only...
Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending looks to have raised few objections as this year’s Man Booker Prize winner, and that’s as it should be. I reviewed the book in The Gazette and ever since I’ve had...
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Jeffrey Eugenides in conversation: The Marriage Plot, the fallacy of...
Jeffrey Eugenides doesn’t exactly crank out novels, but he sure makes them count. The Virgin Suicides attracted an instant cult readership that has continued to grow since its publication, and its...
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A reader’s year: a personal rundown of 2011’s best books
Not intended as a definitive best-of list, what you see below should be taken instead as simply a roll-call of the reading highlights in the year of someone who spends a good deal of his waking hours...
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Happy Dickens Day: celebrating the Montreal-Boz connection
Looking for a way to mark the February 7th bicentennial of the birth of the greatest novelist who ever lived? (OK, if you insist, arguably the greatest. He’s definitely right up there.) You could do a...
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