Matthew Surridge

Author Archive

  • May 16, 2012
    It’s been a terrific few months for controversies about literary prizes. Most notably, the Pulitzer Committee decided not to give an award for literature this year. The last...
  • March 10, 2012
    ain Sinclair’s been a writer for almost four decades, producing poetry, novels and non-fiction shading into fiction, examining themes of place and history and London....
  • February 22, 2012
    The Prague Cemetery, Umberto Ecoâ??s latest novel, was published in 2010 and immediately became an international bestseller. The reviews of the book were largely positive, but...
  • January 27, 2012
    States live and die according to the processes of history. Some survive for centuries, while others are snuffed out in a day. Those that last produce historians. It’s said...