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.
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Lionel Shriver on Last Exit to Brooklyn by Mark Knopfler: “Eternal notes of lost innocence”
From the Long Players series: writers on their most cherished albums.
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“Making America Great Again“: A new short story by Lionel Shriver
At a Brooklyn dinner party everyone can agree that Donald Trump is a monster. Can’t they?
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Lionel Shriver: Even if you haven’t seen Breaking Bad, you should still watch Better Call Saul
A prequel to Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul is plotted on an intentionally smaller scale than its apocalyptic big brother.
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Lionel Shriver: Why I was wrong about Northern Ireland
Although I wasn’t presuming that the Troubles would continue till Doomsday, I didn’t see the 1998 Belfast Agreement coming.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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