These four novels from Durrell give you postwar Egypt in one gooey, marvelous and overwritten package.

Barnes stares far too long as life drags into the 21st century and includes a computer called TAT — The Absolute Truth.

Christopher Booker asserts that all fiction depends on seven themes, recycled and embroidered

This is Michael Ignatieff's overwrought Balkanization of war crimes and journalism gone too far.

The adventures of Manhattan hooker Benny is really the comic story of girl who can't get her life to line up.

What to silent film star Hector Mann and his biographer David Zimmer have in common? Much more than you'd think.

Cajun Gothic is the least of it for Chuck P, who can't enough of ghosts and talking wallpaper.

Debra Weinstein takes a knowing swipe at poets that take themselves too seriously — the majority.

Kafka in Latin garb lurks inside this examination of bureaucracy by Portuguese Nobel-winner Saramago.

Angst and more angst (elegant as ever) in Graham Swift's mournful novel about honor lost.

Dan Rhodes is a magician of strange conceits — and an "Italian" dog's life raises the bar.