Jonathan Safran Foer’s award-winning debut, Everything Is Illuminated, used humour – centring on the experiences of the character ‘Jonathan Safran Foer’ when visiting Ukraine, and his dealings with a translator speaking an eccentric version of English – as a way to coax the reader towards its eventual subject: the Holocaust, metonymically embodied in the massacre of a Jewish community. Its obvious literary model was Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Jun 2005

Unmade in Manhattan

Cruel to Be Kind

Brothers In Arms

Master Of The Universe

Too Old To Rebel

A Suitcase of Spiders

Star Story

The Assassin’s Agony

Imagine a Fascist in the White House

Emma Bovery as a Dixie Chick

Room With A Viewing

Rough Cuts

Charlie and the Dream Factory

Southern Discomfort

Out of the Crucible

Primary Colours

Everything Is Replicated

Lost Dirty Realist

Magic Moments

Everyone’s Sister

Well-Made Tales

Sands or Kurtz?

Zuckerman on a Zimmerframe

Go West

Boy’s Own Story

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