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Top 10s
Top 10 tales from the frontierFrom Peter Carey to Cormac McCarthy, these are some of the most compelling depictions of a territory where both danger and discovery lie
Bright Air Black by David Vann review - Medea is a portrait of defiance in a compelling reimagining
The Greek heroine pays the highest price rather than surrender control in this vivid, sympathetic reinterpretation
Top 10s
Cynan Jones's top 10 books about the hostile oceanShipwrecks, storms and unlucky fisherman – here are some of the best accounts of humans at sea, spanning fiction and incredible true stories
Aquarium by David Vann review – exploring the depths of a dark past
David Vann’s family drama is a little overloaded with aquatic metaphors but has tremendous power
Critical eye
Books reviews roundup: Landmarks, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, and AquariumAquarium by David Vann review – blue-collar parable of family heartache
Reading group
David Vann webchat – as it happenedThe acclaimed author of Legend of a Suicide – whose Caribou Island is February’s Reading Group choice – joined us on the Guardian website. Catch up with the discussion here
Reading group
Caribou Island: a frontier too farThough inspired by a long tradition of American rural writing, David Vann’s novel rejects the romance of the wild
Reading group
Caribou Island: where speech marks have gone extinctQuotations marks, like in many recent novels, have gone awol in this month’s Reading Group choice, David Vann’s Caribou Island. Does removing them free prose up to become poetry, or is it harmful tinkering?
The most eagerly awaited fiction of 2015
Alex Clark looks forward to Ben Lerner’s second novel and the return of Kazuo Ishiguro
Goat Mountain by David Vann – review
David Vann explores man's capacity for violence in his devastating third novel, writes Mark O'Connell
Writers' desktops
David Vann: My desktopThe novelist reveals how he can't even sign his name in longhand now he's switched to typing and why he downloaded the Kindle app in desperation
Critical eye
Critical eye: book reviews – roundupThe Burden of Power by Alastair Campbell, Dirt by David Vann and The Years of Lyndon Johnson Volume 4 by Robert A Caro
Dirt by David Vann - review
Alfred Hickling on a long-winded tale of an abusive family in the Californian suburbs
Dirt by David Vann – review
In sunny California, David Vann takes us to the darkest places in the company of a chilling young protagonist, writes Julie Myerson
Caribou Island by David Vann
David Vann: 'I was filled with rage. For three years I said my father had died of cancer'
Rereading
American infernoThe Guardian Books podcast
Michael Peel on Nigeria, storytelling with Taffy Thomas, and David Vann on Legend of a Suicide
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
Christopher Tayler reviews Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
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