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The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood – review

The great literary critic James Wood turns his stern gaze on the likes of Paul Auster, Richard Yates and WG Sebald in a fascinating collection of essays If literary criticism no longer enjoys the...

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Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem – review

Jonathan Lethem recreates America through voices from the left – but forgets the proletariatOne disappointment of John Lanchester's otherwise highly engaging Capital was the rather half-hearted...

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Book reviews roundup: Those Wild Wyndhams, Dissident Gardens, and Imagination...

What the critics thoughts of Those Wild Wyndhams by Claudia Renton, Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem, and Imagination and a Pile of Junk by Trevor Norton"Historian Claudia Renton's first book is a...

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Jonathan Lethem and Lynne Segal: radical writing – books podcast

The history of the American left gets a personal treatment in Jonathan Lethem's latest novel, Dissident Gardens, while the feminist and radical Lynne Segal examines the confusions and contradictions of...

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Superheroes conquer the literary novel

Prose incarnations of the comic-book staples are not new, but they are gaining new potency in serious fictionSuperheroes have never really worked for me outside what I consider their "natural"...

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Lucky Alan by Jonathan Lethem review – all the lonely people

The nine stories in the American’s new collection exist in the same isolation as their charactersIn the opening story of Jonathan Lethem’s latest collection a newly married couple are described as...

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Lucky Alan and Other Stories by Jonathan Lethem review – more reality-bending...

Two loved-up booksellers chase a Pynchonesque author out of hiding and a stranded band of comic-strip characters have to subsist on their thought balloons in a weird, charming, playful...

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Brooklyn Book Festival 2015 preview: a gathering of writers and stylish tote...

The book festival, which takes place on Sunday and is free, boasts a spread of big literary names, some of whom can even still afford to live in Brooklyn themselvesBrooklyn, many would agree, is the...

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Top 10 New York novels

From Edith Wharton to Jennifer Egan, the city has inspired countless stories, all of them sharing one major character – the metropolis itselfIn novels, a great city is a setting. But it’s also a...

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Fiction to look out for in 2017

With hotly tipped new work from major names including Arundhati Roy and Paul Auster, 2017 looks set to be a strong year for novelsThe febrile US political atmosphere seems to have stirred something...

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The Blot: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem review – a gambler out of luck

Jonathan Lethem runs out of moves in this story of a backgammon hustler facing the surgeon’s knifeThis review’s scanning as a pick or a pan will depend on whether you read fiction for the process or...

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Jonathan Lethem: ‘I’ve always thought of myself as a dark writer, but this is...

The American novelist on writing horror, how Occupy gave capitalism back its name and the thunderbolt that has hit US politicsThe Blot, Jonathan Lethem’s noirish new novel, centres on Alexander Bruno,...

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The Blot by Jonathan Lethem review – high-stakes backgammon and brain surgery

A professional gambler’s journey from board games to the operating table dazzles then loses its wayJonathan Lethem’s latest novel, The Blot, is a story about – well, I’m not entirely sure. Better...

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Firefighter dies after set of new Edward Norton film catches fire in Harlem

Michael R Davidson, 37, killed at Harlem apartment buildingJonathan Lethem adaptation stars Willis, Dafoe and BaldwinA New York firefighter was killed on Thursday night in a blaze at a building in...

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Top 10 genre-twisting novels | Alan Trotter

From Cervantes’ warping of chivalric romance to Flann O’Brien’s narrative games, novelist Alan Trotter picks his favourite convention-smashing talesGenre focuses our attention in such a way as to make...

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The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem review: a high-wire allegory of...

A PI and a writer search for a missing student in Jonathan Lethem’s latest subversive take on classic American noirJonathan Lethem’s breakthrough as a writer came from deconstructing the apparatus of...

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The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem review – are you a Rabbit or a Bear?

A road trip through the California desert becomes a thumping political allegory for a divided nationWhat is a novelist to do in the age of Trump? One option would be to write a story in which the...

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Edward Norton and Thom Yorke: 'The last thing we wanted was for it to get...

Over tea and tequila, the actor and the rock star discuss making Motherless Brooklyn, the dark forces behind Trump – and why Yorke was too messed up to score Fight ClubIn Edward Norton’s new film,...

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Motherless Brooklyn review – over-egged hardboiled noir

Edward Norton tries too hard in an atmospheric but overambitious detective thrillerAdapted from Jonathan Lethem’s novel by writer, director and star Edward Norton (and carefully crafted to display his...

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The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem review – a retrofuturistic ride

The American author imagines a comic-book post-apocalyptic future on a New England farmYou could trace an interesting history of recent western culture through its dystopias. From Zamyatin’s We to...

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