Malcolm Forbes

2 weeks ago | startribune.com | Malcolm Forbes

For almost four decades now, Jonathan Coe has employed wit, insight and scalpel-sharp satire to deliver compulsive, incisive novels that chronicle British lives and explore facets of Britishness. Coe's 1994 breakthrough, "The Winshaw Legacy," laid bare the rapacious appetites and other grotesque qualities of "the meanest, greediest, cruelest" upper-class family. "Middle England" (2018) depicted a disunited kingdom after the Brexit vote.

2 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Malcolm Forbes

When W.G. Sebald died in a car crash in 2001 at the age of 57, he was eulogized by the Anglophone literary world as the author of four singular novels. Artfully fusing fact and fiction and interlarded with grainy and blurry photographs, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, and Austerlitz revolve around real-life characters and invented figures who are either buffeted and displaced by historical forces or afflicted by dread, melancholy, and disorientation on soul-searching pilgrimages.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Malcolm Forbes

One winter’s night, at a charity gala in a Chicago gallery, a con is on. Liz Dawson, masquerading as art consultant Elizabeth Hastings, finds the mark she has set her sights on, Mrs. Reed. After her bogus sob story elicits the sympathy of the wealthy collector and philanthropist, Liz then piques her interest with the offer of a Keith Haring painting that doesn’t exist. Eventually they part, Mrs. Reed walking away with one of Liz’s business cards, Liz making off with Mrs. Reed’s ruby ring.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Malcolm Forbes

One winter’s night, at a charity gala in a Chicago gallery, a con is on. Liz Dawson, masquerading as art consultant Elizabeth Hastings, finds the mark she has set her sights on, Mrs. Reed. After her bogus sob story elicits the sympathy of the wealthy collector and philanthropist, Liz then piques her interest with the offer of a Keith Haring painting that doesn’t exist. Eventually they part, Mrs. Reed walking away with one of Liz’s business cards, Liz making off with Mrs. Reed’s ruby ring.

1 month ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Malcolm Forbes

Early into Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s new novel, narrator Chiamaka, or “Chia,” muses on the two women who matter most to her. There is her best friend, “organized, buttoned-up, ambitious” Zikora, a successful lawyer who has been less fortunate in marriage. There is her cousin Omelogor, a former banker, who is bracingly forthright and ruthlessly single-minded.