I first met Paul Scott at Firpo’s bar on Chowringhee in Calcutta in 1944. READ MORE >>
A bouquet to the Man Booker committee for making the difficult right choice in awarding Hilary Mantel her second prize in four years. As the second part of a promised trilogy and a landmark in historical fiction, Bring Up the Bodies ventures into markedly different territory than the other four novels on the shortlist. But a good case can be made for Mantel as the finest Anglophone novelist writing today—not in spite of the genre she works in, but because of it. READ MORE >>
Homer Now
The Iliad of HomerTranslated by Richmond Lattimore (University of Chicago Press, 599 pp., $15) Homer: The IliadTranslated by Anthony Verity (Oxford University Press, 470 pp., $29.95) Homer: The IliadTranslated by Stephen Mitchell (Free Press, 466 pp., $35) Memorial: An Excavation of the IliadBy Alice Oswald (Faber & Faber, 84 pp., £12.99) READ MORE >>
Highbrow Lowbrow
The King’s Justice
He's Back!
The Story's About You
The First Fine Careless Rapture
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume I, 1907-1922 Edited by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon (Cambridge University Press, 431 pp., $40) Hemingway: A Life in Pictures By Boris Vejdovsky with Mariel Hemingway (Firefly Books, 207 pp., $29.95) READ MORE >>
All Hat and No Cattle
Dearest Bun
Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica Edited by Anthony Thwaite (Faber & Faber, 475 pp., $49.50) I. READ MORE >>
