Is Dan Brown finished?
From our US edition
The novelist’s Happy Meal plotting serves up the same constituent parts over and over
J.S. Barnes
Tuesday
Monday
Bored of the rings: ‘wokery’ takes on Tolkien
From our US edition
The chief sin of Amazon’s The Rings of Power is that it is often simply dull
Wednesday
Christopher Priest was a grievously underrated novelist
From our US edition
His career represented a sequence of missed opportunities for the world beyond his chosen genre to recognize his skill and quiet profundity
