Wednesday, May 23, 2007

The Witching Hour

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AFTER DARK Haruki Murakami Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin Night-time in Tokyo. Jazz and pop standards play at seedy restaurants ...
Friday, May 18, 2007

Hunt And Peck

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RISKY BUSINESS Al Alvarez Al Alvarez is, famously, the person who befriended Sylvia Plath during her last days, going on to write The Savag...
Friday, May 11, 2007

Nothing Fishy About It

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SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Paul Torday Some novels tell stories through diary entries. Some, through e-mails. Some, though letters. Salmon...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Black Literature

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CHRISTINE FALLS Benjamin Black Baffled, middle-aged Irishman confronts the ghosts of his past in a lyrically-written account peppered with ...
Thursday, May 3, 2007

Lively Lives

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WRITTEN LIVES Javier Marias Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa Marias says in his prologue to this collection of quirky pro...
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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Post-apocalypse Now

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THE ROAD Cormac McCarthy (A longer version of this appeared in yesterday's Sunday Times of India .) Winter in America. The land has bee...
Tuesday, April 24, 2007

It's All In The Details

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SO MANY WAYS TO BEGIN Jon McGregor Coming across a debut novel with a unique style is always a pleasure, and such was the case with Jon McG...
Monday, April 23, 2007

Young Einstein

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TANGLEWRECK Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson’s first novel for so-called “young adults”, Tanglewreck is a fast-paced, imaginative tale...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Town And Country

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A FAR COUNTRY Daniel Mason A quaint, old-fashioned word comes to mind while reading Daniel Mason’s second novel, and that word is “integrit...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Nine Reasons To Read This One

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THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST Mohsin Hamid Because it’s short, yet evocative: a relief at a time when authors needlessly pile on the pages. ...
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