Donald Clarke

Vote for the Great American Novel

• Best-of lists Books
• March 11, 2013, 22:45

Publishers Weekly is on a search for the Great White Whale of literary discourse. What can it all mean?

• Books
• February 4, 2013, 22:14

We are a bit late on this. But mention should be made of the furore surrounding Faber and Faber’s 50th anniversary edition of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. As you darn well ought to know, Ms Plath’s novel is a …

• Books
• April 1, 2012, 22:36

Have you seen this? Christopher Priest, the author of The Prestige and The Affirmation, has got himself in a terrible tizzy about the nominations for this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award. Mr Priest maintains that his objections have nothing to …

• Books
• February 9, 2012, 00:43

The question is, of course, more than a little facetious. Having kicked off sometime in 1978, the Dickens bicentennial has now passed through about five media cycles. You know how these things go. Four hundred articles appear. Then somebody pens …