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The Guardian: Guardian review

Saturday 1 November 2008

  • Editors' picks

  • On the eve of the US election, we publish a new story by Lorrie Moore, the finest short-story writer in America today

    Features & reviews p5

  • Writers' rooms: Francesca Simon

    Writers' room: Francesca Simon

    For 16 years my office was a cramped garret, filled with wonky chairs and grisly lighting

  • The week in books

    The male desire for explanation; the real Quantum of Solace; and merchandising fiction

    Features & reviews p6

  • Guardian book club: Night in the museum

    Behind the Scenes by Kate Atkinson

    Review: Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
    Kate Atkinson on the origins of Behind the Scenes at the Museum

  • In search of the good life

    Edward Carpenter by Sheila Rowbotham

    Review: Edward Carpenter by Eliot Smith
    Fiona MacCarthy enjoys an impressive reassessment of the gay godfather of the British left

    Features & reviews p7

  • Market madness

    Basic Instincts by Pete Lunn

    Review: Basic Instincts by Pete Lunn
    Tom Clark on a book that gives rational economic man the kicking he deserves

  • That interminable 0.9 seconds

    Planet Google by Randall Stross

    Review: Planet Google by Randall Stross
    Andy Beckett discovers how Google became one of the world's most important companies

    Features & reviews p8

  • Economic Gangsters

    Economic Gangsters by Raymond Fison

    Review: Economic Gangsters by Raymond Fisman & Edward Miguel
    Economics explains everything, again: this time, global corruption and poverty

  • The Idler's Glossary

    The Idler's Glossary by Joshua Glen

    Review: The Idler's Glossary by Joshua Glen and Mark Kingwell
    It fulminates most entertainingly against labour and industrial amusement

  • How to write about Africa - don't

    Africa: Altered States by Richard Dowden

    Africa by Richard Dowden
    John Ryle welcomes a book that sidesteps crass generalisations about the continent

  • It's a vision thing

    The American Future by Simon Schama

    Review: The American Future by Simon Schama
    Jay Parini is entranced by a brilliant, hopscotching volume of essays about the US past and present

  • Savage Mules

    Savage Mules by Dennis Perrin

    Review: Savage Mules by Dennis Perrin
    As an antidote to US election fever, this sourly funny little bomb of a book kicks over the ashes of past Democratic warmongering and corruption

    Features & reviews p9

  • The palace revolutionary

    Review: Godfather of the Revolution by Tom Ambrose
    Hilary Mantel on an unlikely hero of the 1789 uprising - the Jacobin Duke of Orléans

    Features & reviews p10

  • A Simple Act of Violence

    Review: A Simple Act of Violence by RJ Ellory
    Nothing is simple in this extraordinary whistle-blower

  • Lives unlived

    Review: Confessions of a Falling Woman by Debra Dean
    Purposeful short stories reveal the underside of the American dream says Catherine Taylor

  • The Edge of Madness

    Review: The Edge of Madness by Michael Dobbs
    This book is a huge disappointment

  • Jackdaw Summer

    Review: Jackdaw Summer by David Almond
    Philip Ardagh enters a world at boiling point

  • The Brass Verdict

    Review: The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
    An intriguing plot, decent characterisation, excellent writing and an exciting ending

  • Comedy of errors

    Review: Me and Kaminski by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Carol Brown Janeway
    Andrew Motion thrills to the chase as an incompetent biographer pursues a taciturn artist

  • Quiver

    Review: Quiver by Peter Leonard
    A very assured debut that improves as you read it

    Features & reviews p11

  • In style

    Review: Muse by Susan Irvine
    The lives of a fashionista and her friends offer little of interest to Lucy Ellmann

  • Gospel truths

    Review: The Fire Gospel by Michel Faber
    Ian Sansom is enthralled by Michel Faber's satire on the Da Vinci genre

  • Parties from the past

    Review: Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes
    DJ Taylor considers an excavation of upper-class English life

    Features & reviews p12

  • Predicting the past

    Toni Morrison

    Toni Morrison: My father never trusted any white person at all, would not let them in his house. Luckily my mother was entirely different

    Features & reviews p14

  • Blank Gaze

    Review: Blank Gaze by Jose Luis Peixoto
    The novel is preoccupied with the image of the Earth inverted

  • Guardian First Book Award: Mohammed Hanif

    In the first of our interviews with shortlisted authors we talk to Mohammed Hanif

  • Graham Greene: A Life in Letters

    Review: Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
    Greene was a man who kept countless plates spinning

  • The Modern World

    Review: The Modern World by Steph Swainston
    A fascinating if somewhat fragmented novel

  • The Rebels

    Review: The Rebels by Sandor Márai
    A wonderfully realised portrait of energy and ennui

  • Who Runs Britain?

    Review: Who Run's Britain? by Robert Peston
    Why 'Follow the money' is still good advice

  • The Smoking Diaries: The Last Cigarette

    Review: The Smoking Diaries: The Last Cigarette by Simon Gray
    Somewhere between Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness and Paul Whitehouse's "terribly drunk at the time" character

  • A Life Decoded- My Genome: My Life

    Review: A Life Decoded- My Genome: My Life by Craig Venter
    A thrusting, supercaffeinated tale

    Features & reviews p18

  • Woman in the distance

    Barbara Loden as Wanda

    Don DeLillo on the sad, complex 1970s movie Wanda, made by writer, director and actress Barbara Loden

    Features & reviews p19

  • Out of Season

    The Saturday poem: Out of Season by Ros Barber

  • Crashed and burned

    Dennis Quaid in The Right Stuff

    A generation on, Tom Wolfe's paean to America's space heroes seems like an elegy

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