For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Cressida Connolly

From the March 1987 Issue

Interview with Alice Munro

From the November 2020 Issue

A Romantic Jigsaw

Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life

By Selina Hastings

From the March 2020 Issue

Nightmares in North Berwick

The Bass Rock

By Evie Wyld

From the September 2019 Issue

Love in the Stone Age

Ask Again, Yes

By Mary Beth Keane

From the March 2019 Issue

A Carpet Runs Through It

Improvement

By Joan Silber

From the August 2017 Issue

Branching Out

Forest Dark

By Nicole Krauss

From the May 2017 Issue

Provincial Portraits

Anything Is Possible

By Elizabeth Strout

From the June 1994 Issue

Watch Her Language

Art and Lies

By Jeanette Winterson

From the December 2016 Issue

Of Mice and Men

Shrinking Violets: A Field Guide to Shyness

By Joe Moran

From the November 2016 Issue

Closing Time

Autumn

By Ali Smith

From the January 1993 Issue

Much More Fun than Boiling an Egg

Women as Revolutionary Agents of Change

By Shere Hite

From the July 2016 Issue

Death of the Author

The Violet Hour: Great Writers at the End

By Katie Roiphe

From the September 1997 Issue

Cleverly Done

Enduring Love

By Ian McEwan

From the November 2015 Issue

Power of Conversation

Cockfosters

By Helen Simpson

From the February 2010 Issue

Love and Death

Apparition & Late Fictions

By Thomas Lynch

From the May 2009 Issue

The Weight of Water

The Winter Vault

By Anne Michaels

From the March 2008 Issue

The Croc’s Larder

Nothing to be Frightened of

By Julian Barnes

From the July 2007 Issue

Crevices of the Soul

Cheating at Canasta

By William Trevor

From the August 2005 Issue

Let’s Not Write