The more one reads of Georges Simenon, the stranger the writer and his writings become. His novels, most of them composed in a week or two, are simple, straightforward, shallow-seeming even, but below... Read more »
This year’s Carnegie medals for children’s writing, awarded on Thursday, brought to light an unexpected trend. At a time of widespread public anxiety about the decline in boys’ reading habits and the... Read more »
A brilliant, imaginative woman; a mediocre man with too high an idea of himself, in need of a woman to destroy. Itâs a dynamic that goes back to George Eliotâs Middlemarch or Henry... Read more »