John Lanchester

John Lanchester's most recent book is a memoir, Family Romance. (March 2007)

From the Review

March 15, 2007: The Heroine of Hill Top Farm

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear

Miss Potter a film directed by Chris Noonan

April 6, 2006: A Matter of English Justice

Arthur & George by Julian Barnes

November 17, 2005: A Will of His Own

Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

April 28, 2005: Where the Fun Starts

Magic Seeds by V.S. Naipaul

November 18, 2004: In Sparkworld

The Finishing School by Muriel Spark

January 15, 2004: Hall of Mirrors

My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey

March 13, 2003: Looking for Trouble in China

K: The Art of Love by Hong Ying, translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman and Henry Zhao

One Man's Bible by Gao Xingjian, translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee

The Crazed by Ha Jin

June 27, 2002: Knowing and Not Knowing

Spies by Michael Frayn

April 11, 2002: The Dangers of Innocence

Atonement by Ian McEwan

August 9, 2001: Love on a Laptop

Thinks... by David Lodge

February 8, 2001: The Land of Accidents

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

From New York Review Books

Peking Story "Kidd's pieces are simple, graceful, comic, mournful miniatures of an ominous catastrophe, the unprecedently swift death of a uniquely ancient civilization." —John Updike

Books by John Lanchester

Fragrant Harbor (2002)
SEC (2002)
Mr. Phillips (2001)