The Booker Prize is not perfect. Anyone who does not have a book shortlisted on any given year can tell you with annoyance just how much (too much) of books… Read more »

In a time when e-readers are marketed like minivans—mine can carry more than yours—it feels good to rediscover Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey, and Charles Osborne’s Fifty Works of English (and… Read more »

Many of us have spent more time reading about Kingsely Amis’ reputation as a high-minded philandering boozehound than we have reading his books. Of his estimable output, this reader must… Read more »