A Hologram for the King

My review of Dave Eggers’ A Hologram for the King will be in Sunday’s LA Times. It’s online now.

Who gave Kakutani a satire?

Why on earth would you assign a satire to Ms. Kakutani to read? Not only does she loathe Lionel Shriver’s The New Republic, apparently on moral grounds, but this review is so packed with spoilers it’s stinking up the fridge.

Oh well, we agreed on The Marriage Plot.

I wrote this [Josh Ritter]

In tomorrow’s LA Times, I review Josh Ritter’s debut novel Bright’s Passage.

I wrote this [China Mieville]

A review of Embassytown, the new book by China Miéville.