<p>'I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.'</p>
<p>John Lanchester on Ian Rankin's curmudgeonly detective John Rebus</p>
<p>Failed at TV? Try writing. Adam Begley on Dave Eggers' disarming talent for self-publicity in A Heartbreaking Work...</p>
<p>"Who would write who had anything better to do?"</p>
<p>Jay Parini enjoys The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman, an economical look at the making of the modern United States</p>
Historian who focused on the Enlightenment and the world of ideas in modern Europe
<p><strong>1949-</strong></p>
<p>"Books constantly change even though the words are the same. The world changes, people change, people find a book at the right moment and it answers something, some need or desire."</p>
<p>"My fictional project has always been the invention or discovery of my own country."</p>
<p>The publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath (Faber, £30) was, as <strong>Jacqueline Rose</strong> noted in the <strong>Observer</strong>, "heralded as an event of some literary significance". Ms Rose, an authority on Plath, was...
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