In recent months, three of Britain’s most important writers have published new novels. J. K. Rowling’s earnest The Casual Vacancy, Martin Amis’s comic Lionel Asbo, and Zadie Smith’s ambitiously ...
Amanda Claybaugh
Amanda Claybaugh is Professor of English at Harvard University, where she teaches courses on the Anglo-American novel from the nineteenth century to the present day. 
The Great [National] Novel
When Capital was published in Great Britain earlier this year, it was immediately heralded as the first important novel about the recent financial crisis. And this made sense since its author, John ...