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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

George Herbert is the poet's poet. John Drury's biography is at times infuriatingly simplistic, but succeeds in its scholarship

The Dark Road is a novel that transmits the reality of human suffering at the hands of the Chinese government

MaddAddam occasionaly misses the mark, but at its best is an existential voyage and an exploration of storytelling itself

Jonathan Coe's new novel is set at the World Fair in 1958 and he's captured the idealistic atmosphere where my father displayed an exhibit for the UK