For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
John Banville

From the September 2025 Issue

Fall from Grace

A Scandal in Königsberg, 1835–1842

By Christopher Clark

From the September 2021 Issue

A Book is Born

From the July 2020 Issue

The Pragmatist’s Progress

Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life

By John Kaag

From the December 2018 Issue

Quite the Père

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

By Colm Tóibín

From the September 1998 Issue

A Selfish Man Condemned to Live in Ireland

Jonathan Swift

By Victoria Glendinning

From the June 1998 Issue

Secrets of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Surgeon of Crowthorne

By Simon Winchester

From the October 1997 Issue

He Discovered the True Philosopher’s Stone

Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer

By Michael White

From the February 2000 Issue

Scoundrel Manages to Keep his Secrets

Wainewright The Poisoner

By Andrew Motion

From the March 2017 Issue

The Master by the Arno

From the March 2016 Issue

Sympathy for the Bedevilled

The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for His Mother

By Ulinka Rublack

From the May 2013 Issue

An Ordinary Rendition

A Delicate Truth

By John le Carré

From the December 2013 Issue

An Inspector Calls

Pietr the Latvian

By Georges Simenon & translated by David Bellos

The Late Monsieur Gallet

By Georges Simenon & translated by Anthea Bell

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien

By Georges Simenon & translated by Linda Coverdale