Laura Marsh

The Taste for Argument

“Good criticism should establish what is at stake in a book, that there is, in fact, something worth arguing about.”

The Nonconformist

The mood of John le Carré’s posthumously published novel, Silverview, is brisk and knowing compared with the melancholic, regretful tone of the earlier books.

Are the Kids All Right?

If Jonathan Franzen’s earlier books were steeped in ironic social observation, Crossroads is an experiment in sincerity.

‘Being Charlie’

If sex had a defining feature in the 1990s, it was ubiquity

Dancing Kafka

In this adaptation of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Edward Watson evokes the nightmarish experience Kafka describes—of a man who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect—through the vocabulary of ballet.