For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
James Purdon

From the October 2023 Issue

Across the Great Divide

The Pole and Other Stories

By J M Coetzee

From the July 2023 Issue

The Critic in the Classroom

Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

By John Guillory

From the April 2023 Issue

Portraits of the Artist

Biography of X

By Catherine Lacey

From the December 2022 Issue

Live and Let Dive

The Passenger

By Cormac McCarthy

Stella Maris

By Cormac McCarthy

From the July 2022 Issue

Songs in the Key of Life

Stretto

By David Wheatley

From the April 2022 Issue

Imperial Evidence

Elizabeth Finch

By Julian Barnes

From the September 2021 Issue

Star Wars for Postmodernists

The Making of Incarnation

By Tom McCarthy

From the March 2021 Issue

Our Virtual Friend

Klara and the Sun

By Kazuo Ishiguro

From the December 2020 Issue

Blackout Sunday

The Silence

By Don DeLillo

From the February 2020 Issue

Rooms with a View

Strange Hotel

By Eimear McBride

From the June 2017 Issue

Ringing Off

Phone

By Will Self

From the April 2017 Issue

A Matter of Record

White Tears

By Hari Kunzru

From the July 2015 Issue

Code Read

Book of Numbers

By Joshua Cohen

From the November 2014 Issue

Tape Measures

Amnesia

By Peter Carey

From the March 2014 Issue

The Sharp End of Love

All the Rage

By A L Kennedy

From the February 2011 Issue

Shades of Gray

A Life in Pictures

By Alasdair Gray

From the November 2010 Issue

A Caledonian Bernini

Sean Connery: The Measure of a Man

By Christopher Bray

From the September 2010 Issue

Roaming Holiday

Walking to Hollywood

By Will Self

From the June 2012 Issue

The Adventures of Snooky

Pure

By Timothy Mo

From the November 2012 Issue

Albanian Nights

The Fall of the Stone City

By Ismail Kadare (Translated by John Hodgson)