How Hard Can It Be? might scare younger women – but middle age isn’t that bad
Allison Pearson’s new novel is the sequel to 2003 bestseller I Don’t Know How She Does It.
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Martin Amis’s The Rub of Time shows it’s possible to be foolish and brilliant
Everywhere the author looks, he finds his own opinions reflected back at him.
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Modernist masters and oddball challengers: the Goldsmiths Prize shortlist
A first novel about a fictionalised TS Eliot from a tiny press is up against Will Self and Nicola Barker for…
ByGoldsmiths Prize shortlist 2017: the New Statesman’s reviews
Our critics’ verdicts on the six shortlisted novels.
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Forest Dark: an impressive meditation on identity and the human condition
Nicole Krauss’s novel is defiantly and brilliantly novel.
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The New Urban Crisis charts the problem with “winner-takes-all” superstar cities
Like the issues Richard Florida identifies, his solutions are many, varied and intimidating.
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Claire Tomalin’s A Life of My Own is unexpectedly moving but free of self-pity
What iron she has: a tenacity I would order by the case-load if only she’d bottle it.
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Nonsense and sensibility: the brilliant and conflicted mind of Edward Lear
Jenny Uglow’s Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense illuminates the poet and painter’s life through his work.
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