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The Nobel laureate presents an autofiction of contemplation in his latest collection, meditating on ageing and the process of writing
The laureate of American sleaze conjures a lost LA out of the film star’s death and a cast of real-life characters including JFK
The novelist was the last conjuror of a now vanished America
A comic prodigy who relished vulgarity and made low-life subject matter a speciality, he was always a literary critic at heart
Is this century-spanning, character-packed novel a sign of the time-travelling genre’s exhaustion?
This collection of short fiction imbues everyday expeditions with haunting undertones and a sense of the macabre
Nostalgia dominates stories that capture the dullness and status anxiety of middle age
The author’s latest novel tells the story of two ageing baby-boomers in the age of fitness zealotry and the culture wars
A polarising trailblazer for confessional memoir beloved among young writers
The writer’s genius for nailing a subject in a sentence lives on in his stinging reviews and defensive interviews
A Don Quixote-inspired quest across the US showcases Rushdie’s virtues and vices
White pits his Gen X disaffection against social media-fuelled millennial idealism
An incident-packed road trip lacks the stylistic fun of the author’s earlier works
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