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Just the bare bones

It is impossible (as I prove in this sentence) to review Philip Roth without mentioning the surge of creativity that began when the author was around 60 and which now sees him publishing a novel every...

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Who did fall at the Reichenbach Falls?

Careful Sherlockians, on returning in adulthood to the four novels and 56 short stories that they devoured uncritically in their teens, tend to notice an endearing vagueness on the part of Sir Arthur...

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The loneliness of the long distance salesman

If only E. M. Forster hadn’t beaten him to it by exactly a century, Jonathan Coe could have coined the…

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BOOKENDS: In the bleak midwinter

Salley Vickers name-checks (surely unwisely) the granddaddy of all short stories, James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’, in the foreword to her…

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The man who came to dinner

Each year Genevieve Lee holds an ‘alternative’ dinner party, to which she invites, along with her friends, a couple of…

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Friendships resurrected

A fact which often surprises those who pick up the Bible in adulthood, having not looked at it for years,…

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Novel ways of writing

If you consider ‘gripping metafiction’ a self-contradictory phrase (surely metafiction disables tension through its wink-at-the-audience style?), Nicholas Royle’s First Novel…

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Paradise lost

Black Sheep opens biblically, with a mining village named Mount of Zeal, which is ‘built in a bowl like an…

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Georgian romp

London, 1794. It’s a different world from that portrayed by the Mrs Radcliffes and Anons of the time: rich young…

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Lambs to the slaughter

US military personnel remove bags containing bodies of members of the Jim Jones' sect "Temple of people", 23 November 1978, after they arrived from Jonestown, the community's cultural center, where Jim...

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The gambler’s daily grind

Lord Doyle is a shrivelled English gambler frittering away his money and destroying his liver in the casinos of Macau.…

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Who did fall at the Reichenbach Falls?

Careful Sherlockians, on returning in adulthood to the four novels and 56 short stories that they devoured uncritically in their…

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