Books Landscapes of the Mind Cormac McCarthy’s bleak road The one thing more terrifying than dying in a global catastrophe is surviving it
Books Notes on a Voice John le Carré’s measured fury As the spywriter’s first novel turns 50, Emma Hogan gives away his secrets
Books Found in Translation Everything in the yard danced A Portuguese novel of exuberance and desolation
Books Notes on a Voice The savage thrift of J.M. Coetzee Simon Willis unpicks a Nobel laureate’s lean and menacing prose style
Books Found in Translation Art, freedom and cognac Fifty years ago Vasily Grossman, author of “Life and Fate”, spent two months in Armenia. Simon Willis finds it time well spent
Books Notes on a Voice How Beckett did it The playwright who reinvented theatre, while rarely going to it
Books Found in Translation Herta Müller’s hungry eye The first English edition of a labour-camp novel impresses Simon Willis with its honesty and concision
Books Notes on a Voice Charlotte Brontë What makes a gothic fairy tale about a plain governess so raw and exhilarating?
