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• A Failed Expedition?

  Monday 22 February, 2010

  Sophie Shanahan sees why Colm Toibin may have missed out on the Costa Book Prize

• Warwick Arts Centre: Colm Toibin

  Tuesday 2 February, 2010

  On 14th January 2010, Colm Toibin was invited to give the annual Donald Charlton Lecture, …

• A new literary canon?

  Tuesday 2 February, 2010

  Matt Cassells thinks it may be time to ignore the sneers and embrace the much-derided graphic novel

• Meltdown Ben Elton

  Tuesday 19 January, 2010

  Has the witchhunt for bankers’ blood gone too far? Alexandra Campbell reviews Ben Elton’s latest

• Outside of a Dog Rick Gekoski

  Tuesday 19 January, 2010

  The Bibliomemoir - Katie Herring traces a journey through books and selves

• The Humbling

  Monday 7 December, 2009

  Tom Goodenough peers into the dark mind of Philip Roth

• Unseen Academicals

  Monday 7 December, 2009

  The 37th novel in Pratchett’s “Discworld” series has been nervously awaited. Long-standing fans feared a …

• Superfreakonomics

  Monday 7 December, 2009

  Prostitutes, drink-walking and insuring terrorists: Matt Cassells considers an innovative account of economics outside the classroom

• Her Fearful Symmetry

  Monday 23 November, 2009

  Sophie Shanahan is thrilled by the haunting morbidity of Audrey Niffenegger's newest offering

• Summertime and the living’s easy

  Thursday 29 October, 2009

  Tom Goodenough reviews John Coetzee's fictional biography

• The Kindly Ones

  Sunday 21 June, 2009

  To strive for nothing except to strive for nothing: Jon Parker struggles to get to get to grips with Jonathan Littell's unwieldy Second World War epic.

• The Letters of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1940 Samuel Beckett

  Sunday 21 June, 2009

  The commentary for the first volume of Samuel Beckett’s letters, 1929-1940, is kind enough to …

• The Little Stranger

  Sunday 21 June, 2009

  The strange ravages of time: Ruth Elizabeth Waters finds more social commentary than spine- chilling horror in Sarah Waters' latest novel.

• The colour of magic

  Tuesday 21 April, 2009

  Jon Ware casts a glance at Terry Pratchett's oeuvre, reminding us that we cannot afford to forget about him too quickly.

• Dynamic poetry

  Tuesday 21 April, 2009

  Jon Ware talks with Alex Freer, editor of new Warwick-based poetry magazine Angelic Dynamo.

• The Shack William P. Young

  Tuesday 10 March, 2009

  Bridging the gap: Dave Burnett wonders whether Christian literature can ever reach a wider readership.

• Naomi Klein on iTunes U

  Tuesday 10 March, 2009

  Those who couldn't make it to the awarding of the Warwick Prize for Writing to …

• Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins Adrian Desmond and James Moore

  Tuesday 10 March, 2009

  A right Charlie: A new Darwin biography covers new ground.

• Shock winner

  Tuesday 3 March, 2009

  Naomi Klein wins the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing, John Ware attends the bizarre but brilliant awards evening.

• Mad, Bad and Sad Lisa Appignanesi

  Tuesday 3 March, 2009

  Barking up the right tree: Tom Goodenough reviews Warwick Prize for Writing nominee Mad, Bad and Sad.

• Fiction’s year in flames?

  Tuesday 3 March, 2009

  Of the six books on the Warwick Prize for Writing shortlist, only one, Montano’s Malady, …

• O say can you read?

  Tuesday 20 January, 2009

  Perhaps Jefferson’s quotation is the most prescient, ‘history, by apprising them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future’. It serves as a pithy summary of the book’s pitch at any rate.

• “Oh, so that’s how!”

  Tuesday 30 September, 2008

  The critics have become teachers. Leo Robson proves a stubborn student.

• The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein Peter Ackroyd

  Tuesday 30 September, 2008

  Barely twitching: Peter Ackroyd's Frankenstein rewrite is flimsy, says Jon Ware.

• Singled Out Virginia Nicholson

  Tuesday 30 September, 2008

  Singled Out, Virginia Nicholson’s latest social history, sets out to document what life was like …