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David Barrett

Pynchon’s 9/11: Things Fall Apart
Thomas Pynchon’s new novel displays all the bravura imagination of the rest of his oeuvre, but sees the elusive writer finally coming to terms with the world
David Barrett

A Novelist With Ice In His Heart
J.M. Coetzee is a curiously chilly author and his Kafkaesque new novel is a parable about the writer's place in a world ruled by cold rationalism
David Barrett

Clive’s Indian Summer
Book review of A Point of View by Clive James
David Barrett

Unquiet Flows the Don
Book review of The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo
David Barrett

ONLINE ONLY: Carmen’s Complaint

The judge who resigned over the Man Booker International Prize being awarded to Philip Roth wilfully ignored the author's enduring brilliance

David Barrett

Junk and Bunk
Damian Hirst's diamond-encrusted skull is a worthless as it is indulgent
David Barrett

ONLINE ONLY: Arguing About Amis
The tale of Martin Amis's dead talent is so popular in the press that it has become a cliché. But his detractors' criticisms increasingly focus on his private life, not his literature
David Barrett

ONLINE ONLY: An Unserious Man

Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by David Leigh and Luke Harding reveals the Wikileaks founder's facile politics and ignorance of history

David Barrett

Debasing Orwell
An "Orwellian" US-based company, which generates editorial content "without human authoring", highlights the difference between lazy journalism and sinister civil restriction
David Barrett

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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