Monthly Archives: March 2009

Making an Elephant

This review of Graham Swift’s non-fiction collection Making an Elephant appears in the new issue of Prospect.
Making an Elephant
By Graham Swift (Picador, £18.99)
There is a famous photograph, taken by Lord Snowdon in 1983, of Granta magazine’s first cohort of “best young British novelists.” Ian McEwan and Martin Amis, their shoulders rubbing collusively, are [...]

The Kindly Ones

Jonathan Littell has written a remarkable novel, expertly translated from the original French by Charlotte Mandell, out of the gaps in the historiography of the Final Solution and the war on the Eastern Front. He insinuates his narrator, an SS officer named Max Aue, into a series of actual events, running from the massacre of [...]