The intricate art of AS Byatt
Both playful and serious, and more European than British, her work made me determined to be a novelist.
ByBoth playful and serious, and more European than British, her work made me determined to be a novelist.
By Erica WagnerHer new novel raises the question: is the genre code for a thriller that simply isn’t very thrilling?
By Erica WagnerThe memoir of the American creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood is a rich story of drink, drugs and…
By Erica WagnerThe author of Lincoln in the Bardo on US politics, his “limited talent”, and the curse of being seen…
By Erica WagnerThe late novelist’s extraordinary talent was to take our collective history and make it new.
By Erica WagnerRushdie knows how vital, how serious the business of storytelling is. Yet in my encounters with him he never…
By Erica WagnerWithdrawn and prejudiced, the poet is hard to warm to – but Robert Crawford’s new biography shows how Eliot’s…
By Erica WagnerJohn Walsh’s excitable account of carousing with Martin Amis and other “big beasts” of the Eighties is a paean…
By Erica WagnerA book – a hardback, bound in clear plastic – which I read, and then read again, feeling that…
By Erica Wagner