Writers

The novelist’s Happy Meal plotting serves up the same constituent parts over and over

Over more than a thousand pages, Ron Chernow identifies the emotional root system that fed the writer’s art

For sheer entertainment value, it is the ‘campus trilogy’ of Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work that can hardly be bettered

Thirty years ago, two intriguing books by the writer appeared just a few months apart

As it stands, its place as a literary locus in the American canon is a fraught one

When you give a child a book by a celebrity, you are feeding their minds with advertising

The writer was one of the great underrated chroniclers of ’the valley of the shadow of books’

The seventeenth-century philosopher and playwright was a trendsetting, quixotic genius

He is the myth-maker, the scholar, the convert, the defender of the faith, the rebel, the writer and the teacher

Richard Russo doesn’t do fireworks. Dazzling metaphorical flights are not his thing

The writer is an easy man to admire and sympathize with, but a hard one to like