We the Animals by Justin Torres – review
Justin Torres makes a bold debut with this coming-of-age tale of three mixed-race brothers' fractious lives in poor upstate New YorkIt takes the nerve of a debutant to stray from the first- or third-person singular narrative voice. Jay McInerney wrote ...
Alex Preston’s top 10 literary believers
From Dostoevsky to Zadie Smith, the novelist picks his favourite portrayals of characters struggling with faithAlex Preston was born in 1979. He lives in London with his wife and two children. His first novel, This Bleeding City, was published in 2010....
This Isn’t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You by Jon McGregor
A sense of catastrophe pervades Jon McGregor's deceptively chatty short storiesThe 30 fiercely imagined stories in Jon McGregor's collection share an extraordinary topophilia: each bears as its subtitle the name of a fenland town or village, and even i...
The way we live now?