Harry’s Place Arts

According to this article in The Atlantic, Virago is re-issuing six novels by the underrated English novelist Elizabeth Taylor. Virago’s website isn’t working so I can’t say which six novels these are but evidently The Soul of Kindness, my favourite, is not one of them.
A character that turns up often in Elizabeth Taylor is the [...]

Guest Post by Mikey
Book Review:  Philip Roth, American Pastoral, (London: Vintage, 1998)
 
The tributes on the back of the British edition of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral that I have includes one from Tim Adams of the Observer who refers to the novel both as a “masterpiece” and “momentous.” Having recently read and enjoyed every word of [...]