Steven Poole
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Books
Reality bites
- 08 November 2007
From psy-ops, disinformation and the Bible, to beer and battlefield philosophy, Denis Johnson's new novel is a masterly portrait of war, American-style.
Books
Generation X+1
- 11 October 2007
Douglas Coupland defined the angst - and gadgets - of 1990s geeks everywhere. But now he's grown up, he just wants to be nice.
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In the shadow of the towers
- 14 May 2007
The World Trade Center haunted Don DeLillo's writing for three decades. Now he draws a stunned, allusive novel from its destruction.
Falling Man
Don DeLillo Picador, 246pp, £16.99
ISBN 0330452231
Books
Without borders
- 19 March 2007
The Curtain: an essay in seven parts
Milan Kundera Faber & Faber, 256pp, £12.99
Books
Big fish, little fish
- 05 March 2007
- 1 comment
The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall Canongate, 368pp, £12.99
ISBN 1841959022
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Sympathy for the devil
- 19 February 2007
Hitler's evil, suggests Norman Mailer's thrillingly unfashionable new saga, stemmed from incest, animal cruelty - and from the satanic "Maestro" himself. By Steven Poole
The Castle in the Forest
Norman Mailer Little, Brown, 477pp, £17.99
ISBN 0316861332
Books
Too much, not enough
- 18 December 2006
As 2006 draws to a close, our critics choose the best - and worst - books of the year, and predict what you'll be reading in 2007
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Ghost in the machine
- 30 October 2006
Travels in the Scriptorium
Paul Auster Faber & Faber, 130pp, £12.99
ISBN 0571232558
Ideas
NS Essay - 'Are there really little grey men sitting in secret offices, deciding on the precise language they will use to bamboozle the public? As it happens, there are'
- 20 February 2006
Left and right alike promote their interests by coining phrases which often insinuate meanings that bear no relation to the original words. Beware this Unspeak, warns Steven Poole
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War of the words
- 16 January 2006
- 1 comment
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
David Foster Wallace Abacus, 352pp, £10.99
ISBN 0349119511
