Book Review

The greatest works of fiction published this year

The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger

From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not

Hidden Lessons is filled with clichéd phrasing and, even worse, predictable and clichéd thinking

Magritte’s work is no more socially potent than dog-mess on a doorstep

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was a flawed man, but he should be allowed to be condemned by his words

Not much has changed since Philip Gibbs’ forgotten classic lifted the lid on early 20th century Fleet Street

The transgressive, transmedial and transnational nature of the Gothic genre

British musical theatre has nothing on the American slickness

These two volumes are a solid starting point for understanding the British and Commonwealth air war