It’s become fashionable over the past decade or so for left wing intellectual types such as myself to claim that they hate America and Americans. This is those of us living outside the US, of course. I’ve always felt uneasy agreeing with that kind...

There have been two distinct phases in Harry Crews’ literary career. The first, spanning from the publication of his first novel The Gospel Singer in 1968 to that of A Childhood in 1978, can be dubbed his early career. This includes eight novels and...

My publisher, Equilibrium Books, has just upgraded their site to allow people to read the first 18 pages of The Kingdom of Four Rivers online. It works much in the same way as Amazon.com’s ‘Look Inside’ feature. My novel’s page on the Equilibrium...

Part of me was expecting to be disappointed by the two novels collected in Classic Crews along with A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. From what I had read about Harry Crews, it seemed that I might already have read Crews’ best two books in the...

Morvern Callar is Alan Warner’s first novel. The sequel is These Demented Lands. Of course, I read them in the wrong order, but never mind. Morvern Callar the character is a young woman living in the Scottish port town of Oban, and on the first page of...