Cultural Capital: Orhan Pamuk

This week's Critics section boasts a stunning essay by the novelist Tom McCarthy on David Lynch, plus all our usual columnists, and reviews of the new Orhan Pamuk and Joyce Carol Oates novels. To read the lot, you'll have to head for your local newsagent (snow permitting). But in the meantime, here are a few choice morsels to whet your appetite:

Books: John Gray reviews The Neoliberal State and John ... read more

Writing in the Financial Times, Ian Irvine describes Orhan Pamuk's new novel, The Museum of Innocence, as "a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina . . . As in life, the tragedy flows from the collision of romantic love with the conventions of society . . . It also presents a snapshot of a particular moment in Turkey's ... read more