For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Ophelia Field

From the October 2015 Issue

Stages of Life

The Past

By Tessa Hadley

From the December 2004 Issue

Their Progress Out of Boredom

Wives and Daughters: Women and Children in the Georgian Country House

By Joanna Martin

From the August 2010 Issue

Australian Unfair

The Slap

By Christos Tsiolkas

From the May 2010 Issue

Hanging On A Star

Private Life

By Jane Smiley

From the November 2009 Issue

Once Upon A Time In Mexico

The Lacuna

By Barbara Kingsolver

From the July 2009 Issue

The Last Laugh

My Father’s Tears & Other Stories

By John Updike

From the February 2007 Issue

Guilt & Culpability

Afterwards

By Rachel Seiffert

From the February 2006 Issue

Three-Way Knot

The Drift Latitudes

By Jamal Mahjoub

From the December 2005 Issue

Ecology and Existence

Get A Life

By Nadine Gordimer

From the October 2005 Issue

Secrets In The Attic

Mother, Missing

By Joyce Carol Oates

From the May 2014 Issue

Ghosh Story

The Lives of Others

By Neel Mukherjee

From the May 2005 Issue

Conversation Signifying Nothing

Look at the Dark

By Nicholas Mosley

From the February 2005 Issue

An Absent Mind

Villages

By John Updike

From the May 2012 Issue

A Tale of Two Villages

Ignorance

By Michèle Roberts

From the April 2014 Issue

After Tiananmen

Kinder Than Solitude

By Yiyun Li

From the March 2013 Issue

Seeking Refuge

Questions of Travel

By Michelle de Kretser