In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Ian McEwan’s latest novel, about a long-lost poem, the 2014 dinner party where it was read and the future dystopia that embraced it.

“The Singularity is Nearer,” Ray Kurzweil, was on my library’s new bookshelves when I desperately needed reading material. I decided to risk it. Sadly, my expectations were met. It has almost all the ...

This is a riveting read for anyone who loves wild places - and a great testimony to a great man, says Kev Mitchell. The post ...

Early in Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission, its professor hero talks about what makes a writer worth reading: “[A]n author is above all a human being ... and whether he writes very well or very ...