Satin Island by Tom McCarthy review – a brief theory of everything
Packed with daring cerebral insights and swashbuckling prose, McCarthy’s latest avant-garde novel could be about the futility of meaning. But then again…
The Man Booker prize and its like are keeping literature afloat
Robert McCrum
With the coalition likely to inflict cuts on the BBC, the British Council and the Arts Council, literary prizes become ever more important, says Robert McCrum
