The Talented Mr. Ripley
Few crime novels of the twentieth century have aged as well as Patricia Highsmith's 1955 portrait of a young man with no conscience and…
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The Lord of the Rings
There are few books that everyone agrees they should have read and so few who can claim to have read all of it. This is one of them. Seventy years…
The Big Sleep
Eighty-odd years on, The Big Sleep arrives carrying the weight of everything it set in motion. Reading it now means reading it through the fog of a…
My Brilliant Friend
The opening volume of Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, is a coming-of-age story that refuses every soft consolation the genre usually offers. My…
Beowulf
There is no shortage of Beowulfs. The Anglo-Saxon epic has been Englished scores, perhaps hundreds, of times since its nineteenth-century…
The Name of the Rose
Few novels have managed to smuggle a doctoral seminar past a mass readership the way this one did. On its surface it offers the most reassuring of…
Exercises in Style
Ninety-nine times a man boards the crowded S bus, quarrels with a fellow passenger over some imagined jostling, snatches a vacated seat, and is…
One Hundred Years of Solitude
You open One Hundred Years of Solitude not to discover whether it is a masterpiece but to find out whether you are worthy of it. That is the wrong…
Remembrance of Things Past
To approach Proust through Scott Moncrieff is to encounter two artists at once, and to spend the duration of these volumes unsure which of them one…
The Goldfinch
Eleven years is a long time to keep readers waiting, and longer still to keep them arguing. The remarkable thing about Donna Tartt's third…
The Crimson Petal and the White
Sugar is the kind of character who arrives fully formed and refuses to leave. A nineteen-year-old prostitute in 1870s London, famous in her trade…
The Stand
King wanted to write his generation's Lord of the Rings, and he very nearly pulled it off. It is a sprawling American myth dressed in the…
