David Thompson, having devoted his life to writing about film, suggests the medium has begun to diminish our very nature

Function of this genre is to sublimate what Nietzsche called ressentiment, the rage that arises from a feeling of powerlessness

Part of the game of Nonesuch is to restore the reality of the second World War to a Narnian story of magic

This book may really be about the ways in which we rationalise our lives, fates, choices, when all is ‘too late’

Distorted, uncertain writing underlines the crumbling confidence of the western liberal elite

Pynchon has a remarkable grasp of the American vernacular and no ear for prose rhythm whatsoever

This novel quite blithely assumes that you have read everything Lockwood has previously written

Is this a Banvillean supreme fiction as of old, or a luxury entertainment of the Benjamin Black school? Why not both?

Part memoir and part historical novel, this is a rich account of lives lived inside the gates of history

Keating uses deadpan expressionism to tell startling tales about what happens to our feelings when they collide with the social world

Author’s 19th book features many childhood and adolescent preoccupations

In part, this novel is about how rich people mobilise to protect their class interests

It’s funny, compassionate, observant and wise

The publisher’s blurb praises Vuong’s ‘syntactical dexterity’, which must be an in-house joke

Ash’s book, recounting her own inner change, is subtle, self-conscious and beautifully wrought