Prospect book reviews
3 of the 6 Prospect reviews here with a stated verdict were positive.
Verdict not statedA Hymn to Life · Gisèle PelicotVerdict not statedElectric Spark · Frances WilsonPanMark Twain · Ron Chernow“How Ron Chernow’s biography of Mark Twain misses the mark”RaveOur Evenings · Alan Hollinghurst“as good as anything he’s ever written”PositivePerfection · Vincenzo Latronico“A great recent novel shows what happens to those people”Verdict not statedThe Palm House · Gwendoline RileyVerdict not statedCapitalism and Its Critics · John Cassidy“make us fear for its future”Verdict not statedGirl on Girl · Sophie Gilbert“The new misogyny”Verdict not statedCapitalism · Sven Beckert“Two new surveys of our dominant economic system make us fear for its future”Verdict not statedLázár · Nelio Biedermann“Is ‘Lázár’ as great as they say?”Verdict not statedNobody's Girl · Virginia Roberts Giuffre“open a door on male power and its abuses”MixedThe Poems of Seamus Heaney · Seamus Heaney“the Irish poet was rooted in darkness and mud”MixedDo Not Go Gentle · Kathleen Stock“But what about the evermore elderly people whom it barely acknowledges?”Verdict not statedLove’s Labour · Stephen Grosz“The true meaning of love”Verdict not statedMood Machine · Liz PellyVerdict not statedThe Position of Spoons, and Other Intimacies · Deborah Levy“searching for the meaning of Deborah Levy”Verdict not statedCareless People · Sarah Wynn-WilliamsPositiveNew Cemetery · Simon Armitage“the poet laureate’s heartfelt new collection”Verdict not statedWalking Shadow · Greg Doran