Books A Weekend in New York: an over-crowded and confusingly transatlantic novel This book is like a party so loud and crowded you leave without a single memorable conversation. By Lionel Shriver
Music & Theatre Lionel Shriver on Last Exit to Brooklyn by Mark Knopfler: “Eternal notes of lost innocence” By Lionel Shriver
TV & Radio If you haven’t seen Breaking Bad, you should still watch Better Call Saul By Lionel Shriver
Jonathan Franzen suffers from the weight of expectation Franzen's prose exemplifies the 2011 Booker judges’ exalted “readability”, but his life has become a soap opera not of… By Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver: Toni Morrison picked the wrong subject in God Help the Child Toni Morrison has plenty of laurels on which to rest - and this new novel isn't terrible. But given… By Lionel Shriver
The woman on the first floor: Lionel Shriver on “The Paying Guests” by Sarah Waters In Sarah Waters’ new novel she shows herself to be a dab hand at conveying the immediacy of the… By Lionel Shriver
If you want to be an author, the worst thing you can do is get published The wholesale colonisation of one's day by auxiliary activities that haven’t a whit to do with the contemplative, hermetical… By Lionel Shriver