Tristram Fane Saunders

Articles from the author

Review: Michèle Roberts’ Negative Capability

As the marketing machinery now requires writers to turn into brands, the novelist wonders if our passion for memoirs is destroying fiction

Michèle Roberts complains how 'marketing persons' may be triggering a change in reading habits

The library that reshaped modern literature

Writers, from Darwin to McEwan, have been inspired by the shelves of the London Library, says Tristram Fane Saunders

The London Library is the world’s largest private lending library, and some of the most famous books of the past two centuries were inspired by browsing in its shelves

Book review: ‘The Sirens of Mars’

Even as the UAE’s very own Hope probe is rocketing towards Mars, Tristram Fane Saunders reviews The Sirens of Mars, a book that, if anything, could make you want to visit the Red Planet

The Sirens of Mars is full of wonderful stories about the search for life on the Red Planet

Meet ‘the funniest woman on Earth’

American stand-up Maria Bamford is revered as the ‘comedian’s comedian’. Can her debut UK tour make her a household name?

BBC listed Maria Bamford as one of 12 “artists who changed the world” in 2019

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