Freedom: Jonathan Franzen (2010)
Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom is (if one discounts The Pale King, David Foster Wallace’s posthumous epic of depression) the most eagerly awaited American literary novel »
Imperial Bedrooms: Bret Easton Ellis (2010)
Early in Bret Easton Ellis’s bleak new novel, the narrator, Clay, a well-known writer, is negotiating a sexual transaction with a starlet who hopes he’ »
John Le Carré: A Most Wanted Man (2008)
For much of his career John Le Carré has been pigeonholed as a practitioner of genre fiction. But whereas the spy novel has traditionally induced an »