Inside Jim Harrison’s life of excess
Todd Goddard’s new biography reveals a man who loved alcohol and mystery
Novels
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket is transcendent and exhausting
The octogenarian author can still conjure magical prose
Woody Allen’s first novel takes on cancel culture
It’s unlikely to change your preconceived notion of the man
Tuesday
Addie E. Citchen’s debut novel is unsettling and ambitious
Dominion offers no answers, only the clear recognition of how power corrodes those bound to it
Tuesday
A lack of national identity has killed off the Great American Novel
The future of American fiction is not in New York’s publishing houses, nor in the pages of the New York Times
Patricia Lockwood’s latest novel transcends genres
Many books mix fiction and memoir. Successfully incorporating criticism into a novel is more unusual
Tuesday
Ocean Vuong’s newest work is an affecting celebration of misfits
For all its flaws, The Emperor of Gladness is ultimately a worthwhile novel with a big heart
Monday
Evie Wyld’s latest novel is unsettling yet hopeful
The Echoes is full of ghosts
Tuesday
The talented Evan S. Connell
He might be the greatest American novelist you’ve never heard of
Monday
Blood Meridian is Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece
It may be the Great American Novel critics have searched for
Sunday
Lorrie Moore explores the thin veil between life and death
It’s hard to find writers ancient or modern who have used language with a music, wit and tenderness comparable to Moore’s
Thursday
What makes a novel funny?
In search of the great American comic novel
Forbidden love in the Great War
If Alice Winn’s material is familiar, she handles it with skill and panache
Monday
Tom Crewe’s The New Life is sophisticated, intelligent and gripping
This book doesn’t pretend that its subjects are twenty-first century people in different clothes
Monday
The Spectator’s 2022 Books of the Year
Our writers weigh in
Monday
Evelyn Waugh’s sincerest form of flattery
He had a major but unsung inspiration: the now-neglected novelist William Gerhardie
Wednesday
Searching for the American summer novel
It’s a time of nostalgia, of seeking that which is perpetually, unrecoverably lost
Saturday
Why don’t men read novels?
The gender fiction gap isn’t as modern as we think
Sunday
Is the white male novelist disappearing?
They’re not gone, but they are being ignored by literary prize committees
Monday
Turning the page on James Bond
James Bond was first a literary hero
