Geordie Williamson

HOW curious that a novel as concerned with haunting as Harland’s Half Acre should be summoned back from the purgatory of the publisher’s backlist.

WHEN France’s elite Ecole Normale Superieure merged its men’s and women’s campuses in 1928, it brought to prominence some gifted female thinkers.

MIGRANTS from around the globe share their experiences of `fitting in’ in a new book.

A GENERATION of critics raised on the pioneering highbrow-lowbrow of Susan Sontag and Clive James now apparently has no brow at all.

ANTHONY Macris’s first novel now seems closer to rumour than reality. Capital, Volume One was published by Allen & Unwin in 1997.

BRITISH nature writing is usually considered a bucolic genre: serene tones combined with nostalgic substance.

DESCRIBED by Ian McEwen as the perfect form of prose fiction, the novella is undergoing a renaissance.

J.C. Kannemeyer’s biography of J.M. Coetzee promises, and mostly delivers, the information readers need to calculate the route the writer has taken.

READING A. M. Homes’s new novel is a little like watching a sitcom with the laugh track out of sync.

BEFORE Questions of Travel became the title of Michelle de Kretser’s fourth novel, it was a poem by Elizabeth Bishop.