Late in the novel Ex-Wife, a pair of newlyweds turned sudden divorcees gather for a final dinner. Peter and Patricia are both somewhat battle-worn: after their lopsided open marriage came to drunken... Read more »
The coolest contemporary movie star, Keanu Reeves, added to his portfolio in 2021 by creating a comic book series called BRZRKR, co-written by Reeves with Matt Kindt and illustrated by Ron Garney.... Read more »
My enjoyment of Walter Scottâs brilliant Wendy books, in which a millennial arts graduate with a self-destructive streak as wide as the Yukon River pings like a pinball around various Canadian cities,... Read more »
âI know youâre trying to skirt around it,â says BenjamÃn Labatut when I put to him that his books concern people of unworldly intelligence working on problems that are maximally deep, âbut the... Read more »
The years 1989–2008 were an era of neoliberal hegemony in US politics, economy, and culture. Post*45 scholar Adam Kelly argues that American novelists who began their careers during these years—specifically the post-baby... Read more »
Jeremy Cooper, 77, was born in Dorset and lives in Somerset. An art historian who served as a guest expert on the Antiques Roadshow between 1979 and 1981, heâs the author of... Read more »
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated by Sophie Hughes (4th Estate, £16.99)Thereâs no hanging about in Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zeránâs third novel, which opens with images of rabbits being frightened to... Read more »
Six âbold and playfulâ novels, including The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley and Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly, have been shortlisted for the Waterstones debut fiction prize. Now in... Read more »
Good old apocalypse: itâs always there when we need it, ready to give shape to our baggy existential crises. As the critic Frank Kermode once wrote, the end times are a âconcord-fiction,â... Read more »