For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Patricia Duncker

From the February 2018 Issue

Memory Slain

Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia

By Francis O'Gorman

From the March 2017 Issue

The Eyes Have It

The Transferred Life of George Eliot: The Biography of a Novelist

By Philip Davis

From the September 2016 Issue

Body Blows

Orphans of the Carnival

By Carol Birch

From the September 2011 Issue

Miracles of Life

The Translation of the Bones

By Francesca Kay

From the December 2010 Issue

Romain A Clef

Romain Gary: A Tall Story

By David Bellos

From the July 2010 Issue

Blues & Beowulf

Mud: Stories of Sex and Love

By Michèle Roberts

From the May 2010 Issue

Les Hommes Bleus

Desert

By J M G Le Clézio, Translated from the French by C Dickson

From the February 2010 Issue

The Hour of the Star

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

By Benjamin Moser

From the May 2009 Issue

Cromwell At Court

Wolf Hall

By Hilary Mantel

From the July 2008 Issue

Coming to America

Unaccustomed Earth

By Jhumpa Lahiri

From the October 2008 Issue

Prison Notebooks

From A to X: A Story in Letters

By John Berger

From the July 2014 Issue

Sleeping Beauties

From the November 2012 Issue

Offstage Drama

Dear Life

By Alice Munro

From the October 2013 Issue

All a Blur

Speedboat

By Renata Adler

Pitch Dark

By Renata Adler

From the October 2011 Issue

From Hollywood to Bollywood

A Lovesong for India: Tales from East and West

By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala