Leo Robson
Articles by Leo Robson
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Invisible
- 05 November 2009
- 3 comments
The existential thrillers of Paul Auster remain seductive, but his is a “voodoo enterprise”: a fiction of tricks yet little emotional depth.
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Muriel Spark: the Biography
- 06 August 2009
Muriel Spark was a tricky woman, but her books are short and perfect. Leo Robson looks at the life and work of this most single-minded and stimulating writer
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My Father's Tears and Other Stories
- 02 July 2009
Leo Robson, our lead fiction reviewer, argues that a posthumous collection of short stories is proof that John Updike’s best years were long behind him by the time he died
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
- 14 May 2009
- 2 comments
It is a hushed world where everything is slightly out of kilter, and where people laugh for fear they might never stop crying. This is the realm of Kazuo Ishiguro
