Art Edwards, Author at Book and Film Globe

Friday, January 22, 2021

The Happily Ever After

Time to Change

October 20, 2020October 21, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Anna Weiner, Avi Steinberg, The Happily Ever After, Uncanny Valley

In ‘The Happily Ever After’ and ‘Uncanny Valley,’ writers escape from the dowdy world of literary publishing

Twilight of Democracy

NON-FICTION Politics

Is this the ‘Twilight of Democracy’?

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Anne Applebaum, David Daley, Twilight of Democracy, Unrigged

Or will the center hold? Or neither? Or both?

Utopia Avenue

‘Utopia Avenue’ Rocks Too Softly

August 10, 2020August 13, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Between the Records, Daisy Jones And The Six, David Mitchell, Julian Tepper, Utopia Avenue

David Mitchell’s new novel could use more noise

Pizza Girl

Pizza Girl, Lawn Boy, and the Vanishing 20th-Century Novel

June 15, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Jean Kyoung Frazier, Jonathan Evison, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Lawn Boy, Pizza Girl

Not everything is autofiction

Good Citizens Need Not Fear

‘Good Citizens Need Not Fear’

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Good Citizens Need Not Fear, Maria Reva, Ukraine

What’s the point of reading fiction set in Ukraine?

Velvet Rope Economy

What Would You Pay?

March 3, 2020March 8, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Nelson Schwartz, Velvet Rope Economy

‘The Velvet Rope Economy’

Does Not Compute

January 14, 2020January 14, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Black Mirror, Dave Eggers, Joanna Kavenna, The Circle, Zed

A Review of ‘Zed’ by Joanna Kavenna

The Sandworm Strikes

January 6, 2020January 5, 2020 Art Edwards 0 Comments Andy Greenberg, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Mimikatz, Sandworm, Stuxnet

How a Secret U.S. Government Plan to Disable Iran’s Nuclear Capability Created the World’s Deadliest Cyberweapon

The Innocents at Home

November 12, 2019November 20, 2019 Art Edwards 0 Comments Canadian orphan, Doubleday, Giller Prize, Michael Crummey, Newfoundland, River Thieves, The Innocents

Canadian Orphans in the Blue Ice Lagoon

Memoir NON-FICTION

To Dish or Not to Dish?

October 22, 2019October 23, 2019 Art Edwards 0 Comments Deirdre Bair, Parisian Lives, Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir

‘Parisian Lives,’ a Juicy Memoir by Beckett’s Biographer

‘Night Boat to Tangier’

October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 Art Edwards 0 Comments Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

Echoes of Joyce in a Lyrical Novel about Seedy Irishmen

Downstairs Abbey

August 21, 2019 Art Edwards 2 Comments Alix Nathan, The Warlow Experiment

Alix Nathan’s ‘The Warlow Experiment,’ in Which a Man Chooses to Spend Seven Years Locked in a Basement

In a World Where No One Speaks Jive

August 6, 2019 Art Edwards 1 Comment Lisa Howorth, Summerlings

Innocence Over Camp in Lisa Howorth’s ‘Summerlings’

Less Cowbell

July 10, 2019July 9, 2019 Art Edwards 0 Comments Daisy Jones And The Six, Stevie Nicks, Taylor Jenkins Reid

‘Daisy Jones and the Six’

FICTION NON-FICTION Writers

How George Orwell Made 1984

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 Art Edwards 0 Comments 1984, Dorian Lynskey, George Orwell, The Ministry Of Truth

‘The Ministry Of Truth,’ a Definitive, if Very English, Biography of Modernity’s Most Prophetic Book

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