All posts by Malcolm Forbes

May 10th, 2012

The World Cracks Open

Bill Clegg’s new book, Ninety Days: A Memoir of Recovery, follows the recovering crack addict as he tries – and sometimes fails – to stay sober. …more

March 19th, 2012

The New Gilded Class

Christina Alger’s debut The Darlings follows the Darling family headed by a billionaire financier through the financial crisis. Luckily, these rich people are really screwed up. …more

February 9th, 2012

Perceptive and Prophetic

Hesperus Press collected four long-neglected critical essays for their new collection, Virginia Woolf’s On Fiction. Her criticism, like her fiction, is an utter delight. …more

January 2nd, 2012

Fitzgerald’s Lost Road Trip

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s long-lost account, The Cruise of the Rolling Junk, follows Zelda and Scott on an eventful road trip in the 1920s. …more

December 20th, 2011

Toteninsel in English

New in English, Gerhard Meier’s 1979 Isle of the Dead recalls W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn as two friends traverse their town, discussing nature and death in elegant prose. …more

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Malcolm Forbes' reviews and essays have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the San Francisco Chronicle, The National, The Australian, The Daily Beast, the Quarterly Conversation and many other journals. Born in Edinburgh, he currently lives in Berlin.

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