I wrote about Michael Arditti's rich and engrossing novel of art, faith and morality, The Choice, in the The Spectator
Jude Cook
Thursday, 25 May 2023
Saturday, 29 April 2023
I reviewed Xiaolu Guo's memoir Radical, an intellectually rich and stimulating exploration of language and female emancipation, in the Guardian
Thursday, 13 April 2023
Lydia Sandgren's Collected Works is a satisfying Franzenian doorstopper of a novel. Sometimes the traditional pleasures of character and narrative trump experiments with form. Here's my review in the Spectator
Thursday, 30 March 2023
Kimberley C. Patton's Gemini and the Sacred is a capacious and erudite anthology of essays on twins and twinship in religion and mythology. Here's my review in the TLS
Thursday, 2 March 2023
Sebastian Barry's superb new novel is a deep exploration of the 'sad stations of memory' set on Ireland's Dalkey coastline. Here's my piece in the Literary Review
Friday, 20 January 2023
Here's my review of Hotel Milano, the new novel from veteran novelist, essayist & translator Tim Parks in the Guardian