Chris Wright gets to grips with Clive James’ weighty new tome, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of my Time, a dazzling summary of the twentieth century’s cultural giants…

Olivia Varley-Winter enjoys Tom Coffey’s Blood Alley, a fantastical crime thriller set in 1940s New York…

Zahra Dharsi is gripped by Matthew Reilly’s summer blockbuster…

Chris Wright reads Violence…

Alex Marshall looks into the future and wonders if the Amazon Kindle will be a success…

James Russell is hypnotised by literary power with Lloyd Jones’ Booker-shortlisted novel…

Post-Valentine’s Day, Jo Smee thinks that Cecelia Ahern’s there’s-life-after-death chick lit is just what we all need…

James Russell thinks that ‘How To Do Theory’ by Wolfgang Iser is too, well, theoretical…

Zahra Dharsi is impressed by the potency of this Booker-shortlisted novel…

Olivia Varley-Winter tries to match head and tail of Leon de Winter’s answer to gastro-porn.