Episodes
John Crace makes a Sunday night feelgood costume drama
Published 01/13/10
The unbearable lightness of trying to be Milan Kundera gets to John Crace as he swallows his classic text
Published 01/12/10
John Crace takes journalism's monster truck for a spin and writes him off
Published 01/12/10
John Crace experiments wi skaggie an aw tha'
Published 12/03/09
John Crace reheats some leftover recipes
Published 12/01/09
John Crace explores his thespian side
Published 11/26/09
'How dare you, sir!' Edith Wharton's 1870s portrait of high-class New York mores is taken downtown by John Crace
Published 11/26/09
John Crace reminds us that there's no I in socalsm or totaltaransm
Published 11/20/09
John Crace becomes tragically incoherent
Published 11/18/09
John Crace attempts to believe in a smooth-talking 65-year-old 'lesbo converter', but he can't keep it up
Published 11/17/09
John Crace makes some startling discoveries about the economics of sequel-writing
Published 11/17/09
Ben Elton's new novel, set in a world of financial mayhem, suffers a severe crash in the hands of John Crace
Published 11/13/09
John Crace tails George Smiley's first outing as a spy, but whose side is he on?
Published 10/23/09
John Crace unpicks The Authorized History of MI5 and feels the wool being pulled over his eyes
Published 10/23/09
John Crace digests this year's Booker Prize winner: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Published 10/07/09
John Crace gets lost in thickets of leaden prose as he unravels the mysteries of Dan Brown's new crypto-thriller
Published 10/02/09
John Crace is cast adrift on the seas of Sylvia Townsend Warner's classic, Mr Fortune's Maggot
Published 10/02/09
John Crace sets off in deadly pursuit of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
Published 10/02/09
John Crace traces the evolution of the greatest scientist on earth in Richard Dawkins's latest Darwinian masterpiece
Published 10/02/09
John Crace does obeisance before William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother
Published 09/29/09
John Crace endures an orgy of sex and philosophy as he wrestles his way out of the ashram
Published 09/11/09
John Crace goes to the Potteries
Published 08/28/09
John Crace. Writes. In very. Short sentences.
Published 08/27/09
John Crace bids to become Master of the Novelverse
Published 08/21/09