Ed Lake Archive
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Feb 23, 2013
Robert Hudson’s novel centring on a high-society tuna-fishing fad in 1930s England appears to have been written with a television adaptation in mind. Read Article Book review: Robert Hudson's novel is Downton with tuna
Jan 13, 2012
Fadi Azzam's fantastical stories are set in a real southern Syrian Druze village. Read Article Sarmada: heady stuff, but not for everyone
Dec 16, 2011
Don DeLillo presents a challenging and surprisingly accurate view of human behaviour. Read Article The Angel Esmeralda: an exploration of violence
Nov 11, 2011
Emma Donoghue skilfully exhumes the true-life cast of a scandal to conduct a gripping examination of manipulation and malice. Read Article The Sealed Letter: deception and divorce in Victorian England
Oct 07, 2011
Ed Lake examines two books on leadership, one a scholarly frolic exploring the nature of subterfuge, the other a humourless sermon on the folly of persecution. Read Article Scapegoats and deceivers: where the loyalties of leaders lie
Sep 09, 2011
Sparks fly in Amy Waldman's bustling debut novel, when the victor in a competition to design the Ground Zero monument turns out to be a Muslim. Read Article The Submission: Muslim wins 9/11 memorial design contest
Aug 19, 2011
Alan Hollinghurst's new novel is a literary caper as well as a study of a particular sector in English society. Read Article The Stranger's Child: A detective story with a difference
Jul 15, 2011
Slipping in and out of a coma, the central character in Elias Khoury's novel is more attached to the version of herself that appears in her semi-conscious state than to the person she really is. Read Article As Though She Were Sleeping: a dull work of imagination
Jun 17, 2011
The pioneering work of the Emirati contemporary artist Hassan Sharif, one of the UAE's most energetic and rigorous creative talents, is now the subject of a major coffee-table retrospective. Read Article Hassan Sharif brings his strange, prodigious talent home
Jun 17, 2011
This short collection from the frequently garlanded Dutch novelist and travel writer Cees Nooteboom plays as a celebration of the heartlessness shared by life and art. Read Article The Foxes Come at Night: Revel in the poetry of pain
