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Can you get Lost?

Jonathan Heawood — 20th May 2006 — Issue 122 Free entry

Enlightenment philosophers, polar bears and pirate ships all feature in “Lost.” But if the series is about anything, it’s about contemporary America

Subject: Media, North America

From lad-lit to lit

Jonathan Heawood — 22nd January 2006 — Issue 118

Despite Nick Hornby’s popularity in Britain and credibility in America, serious critical appreciation of his literature of self-doubt is still overdue

Subject: Books & literature, Short stories

Race and loneliness

Jonathan Heawood — 25th September 2005 — Issue 114

Caryl Phillips’s new novel is about race in early 20th-century American music-halls. But the subject that has always interested him most is loneliness

Subject: Books & literature, North America, People & populations, Short stories

Politics of the playground

Jonathan Heawood — 23rd July 2005 — Issue 112

Why does British fiction only portray politics as a mean, childish squabble? The BBC4 drama “The Thick of It” bears out an immature tradition

Subject: Law & government, Media, Short stories

The axeman cometh

Jonathan Heawood — 26th September 2004 — Issue 102

Dale Peck casts himself as the saviour of modern fiction, but his firecracker reviews end up merely spitting at a few B-listers. Jonathan Heawood sticks his neck on the block

Subject: Books & literature, Short stories