Peter Conrad vs Horace and Me by Harry Eyres
July 18th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
In The Observer this week, Peter Conrad laid into Harry Eyres’s memoir Horace and Me: “When not blubbing, Eyres is
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Giles Coren vs Cooked by Michael Pollan
June 10th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
Giles Coren was on enjoyably caustic form reviewing gastro-philosopher Michael Pollan’s Cooked for The Times: “… do not, I repeat not,
Frederic Raphael VS A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré
June 4th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
One reviewer said “Le Carré, now an august 81, is a writer of towering gifts.” In his review in the
Hannah McGill VS All That Is by James Salter
June 4th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
In his Guardian review, James Lasdun called All That Is “a scaled-down, American Anthony Powell, with the starch rinsed out
Adam Lively vs My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard
May 13th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
The second part of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six volume autobiographical epic My Struggle has just been published in English. The books have
Allan Massie VS The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee
May 4th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
The Scotsman’s Allan Massie wasn’t cowed by JM Coetzee’s reputation: “The novel is at best evidence of what you can
Neil McCormick vs A Prince Among Stones by Prince Rupert Loewenstein
April 22nd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
Telegraph reviewer Neil McCormick didn’t warm to Prince Rupert Loewenstein after reading his memoir A Prince Among Stones: ‘There is
Craig Brown vs Distant Intimacy by Frederic Raphael
April 22nd, 2013 | by The Omnivore
If you liked Public Enemies, the collected correspondence of Michel Houellebecq and Bernard Henry-Levy, then you will love Distant Intimacy, a book
Suzanne Moore vs Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust by Frank Furedi
March 27th, 2013 | by The Omnivore
Suzanne Moore in the Guardian on Frank Furedi’s Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: the Jimmy Savile Scandal: “The morality of using a
Yiyun Li VS Pow! by Mo Yan
February 1st, 2013 | by The Omnivore
Yiyun Lu in the Guardian wasn’t impressed by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan’s Pow!: “In the 1990s, Wang Xiaobo, a Chinese writer
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