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Book Review: Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
The Richard Yates back-story has passed into popular literary legend: the acclaimed author who never sold more than 12,000 copies per hardback, and whose works were largely out of print before being rediscovered posthumously and enjoying a revival. For a Yates novice such as myself this might seem a [...]

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“He’ll get by without his rabbit pie … run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run”
9/10
‘Rabbit, Run‘ is the first in a quartet of novels by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist that revolve around the varying fortunes of a former high school Basketball champion Rabbit Angstrom. All four novels were written at the end of the a [...]

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On race and ‘invisibility’
8/10
Ralph Ellison’s debut novel is a startling and unforgettable vision of racial tension and inequality in 1950s America. In a sprawling and unpredictable narrative, Invisible Man veers between surreal, near-farcical episodes and shocking realism. As much as Ellion’s nameless protagonist seems to slip in and out of visibility, so does the novel [...]

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