Benjamin Markovits

Benjamin Markovits’s most recent novel, A Quiet Adjustment, about Byron’s wife, is published by Faber.

In the LRB Archive:

• You Have Never Written Better: Byron’s Editor · 20 March 2008

  • The Letters of John Murray to Lord Byron edited by Andrew Nicholson

• Diary: Austin weird · 1 September 2005

• Megasuperwarlords: Mark Costello · 5 August 2004

  • Big If by Mark Costello

• Poem: ‘Rosehips’ · 5 February 2004

• Lollipop Laurels: Alice McDermott · 7 August 2003

  • Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott

• You can’t get there from here: Siri Hustvedt · 19 June 2003

  • What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt

• Kiss me!: Kundera’s Nostalgia · 20 February 2003

  • Ignorance by Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher

• Aestheticise, Aestheticise: ‘Shroud’ · 2 January 2003

  • Shroud by John Banville

• Master of the Revels: Miklós Bánffy’s Transylvanian Trilogy · 14 November 2002

  • They Were Counted by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfield and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen
  • They Were Found Wanting by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfiled and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen
  • They Were Divided by Miklós Bánffy, edited by Patrick Thursfield and Kathy Bánffy-Jelen

• Michael Jordan and Me: basketball obsessions · 23 May 2002

• Are words pointless?: Bernhard Schlink · 21 March 2002

  • Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink, translated by John Woods

• Suspicion of Sentiment on Alice Munro · 13 December 2001

  • Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro

• What was it that so darkened our world? on W.G. Sebald · 18 October 2001

  • Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell

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