James Walton

Centrist Dads Unreformed

The vast social world of Andrew O’Hagan’s new novel is designed to pose a challenge to good liberal values.

The Hemon Variations

After wild forays, Aleksandar Hemon has written an achingly responsible new book.

Doomed to Lucidity

Though Andrew Miller is a master of traditional narrative, he has struggled to escape the formulas of his fiction.

‘Everything Is Fiction’

Keith Ridgway’s novels and stories try to render life as it is before the contrivances of fiction have gotten to it.

Selfies from Hell

John Lanchester’s collection Reality and Other Stories aims to restore a sense of the uncanny to our digitally driven lives.

Infinite Quarantine

Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is both topical and autobiographical, two unexpected qualities for a novel about a wicked magician-scientist exiling the protagonist to an enchanted world.

‘A Good Year Once’

Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize–winning ‘Shuggie Bain’ is not just an accomplished debut. It also feels like a moving act of filial reverence.

Who’s Laughing Now?

All That Shite

Myths, Tribes & Troubles

Shake Those Dice Again

Noble, Embattled Souls

Star Fiction

Bondage

‘Fascinating, Fearless, and Distinctly Odd’

Writing on a High Wire