Theo Tait

Theo Tait is deputy editor of the Week.

In the LRB Archive:

• Bloody Brilliant Banter: ‘A Natural’ · 4 May 2017

  • A Natural by Ross Raisin

• But this is fateful!: Jonathan Lethem · 16 March 2017

  • The Blot: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem
  • The Blot by Jonathan Lethem and Laurence Rickels

• The Atom School: J.M. Coetzee · 3 November 2016

  • The Schooldays of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee

• Your mission is to get the gun: Raoul Moat · 31 March 2016

  • You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson

• I’m hip. I live in New York: Leonard Michaels · 3 March 2016

  • Sylvia by Leonard Michaels

• Born to Lying: Le Carré · 3 December 2015

  • John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman

• Belfryful of Bells: John Banville · 19 November 2015

  • The Blue Guitar by John Banville

• A Turn for the Woowoo: David Mitchell · 4 December 2014

  • The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

• Ways of Being Interesting: Ian McEwan · 11 September 2014

  • The Children Act by Ian McEwan

• Water-Borne Zombies · 6 March 2014

  • Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean by Lisa-Ann Gershwin

• A Dreadful Drumming: Ghosts · 6 June 2013

  • The Undiscovered Country: Journeys among the Dead by Carl Watkins
  • A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof by Roger Clarke

• The Hemingway Crush: Kevin Powers · 3 January 2013

  • The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

• Don’t wear yum-yum yellow: Shark Attack! · 2 August 2012

  • Demon Fish: Travels through the Hidden World of Sharks by Juliet Eilperin

• Most losers are self-made men: Richard Ford · 5 July 2012

  • Canada by Richard Ford

• This is me upside down: ‘Kapow!’ · 7 June 2012

  • Kapow! by Adam Thirlwell

• The Absolute End: Ali Smith · 26 January 2012

  • There but for the by Ali Smith

• Eagle v. Jellyfish: Edward St Aubyn · 2 June 2011

  • At Last by Edward St Aubyn

• ‘The Killing’ · 31 March 2011

• It belonged to us: Tristan Garcia · 17 March 2011

  • Hate: A Romance by Tristan Garcia, translated by Marion Duvert and Lorin Stein

• A Bit of Ginger: Gordon Burn · 5 June 2008

  • Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel by Gordon Burn

• Feral Hippies: Peter Carey goes astray · 6 March 2008

  • His Illegal Self by Peter Carey

• Just a Big Silver Light: Alan Warner · 25 May 2006

  • The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven by Alan Warner

• A Pair of Lobsters in a Murky Tank: James Lasdun · 9 March 2006

  • Seven Lies by James Lasdun

• Gorilla with Mobile Phone: Michel Houellebecq · 9 February 2006

  • Houellebecq non autorisé: enquête sur un phénomène by Denis Demonpion
  • The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Gavin Bowd

• Flame-Broiled Whopper: Salman Rushdie · 6 October 2005

  • Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

• Twinkly: Beyond the Barnes persona · 1 September 2005

  • Arthur & George by Julian Barnes

• Through Their Eyes: Abdulrazak Gurnah remembers Zanzibar · 7 July 2005

  • Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah

• Everlasting Fudge: The Difficult Fiction of Cynthia Ozick · 19 May 2005

  • The Bear Boy by Cynthia Ozick

• Fancy Patter: Holmes and the Holocaust · 31 March 2005

  • The Final Solution by Michael Chabon

• Rutrutrutrutrutrutrutrut: Tom Wolfe’s Bloody Awful Novel · 6 January 2005

  • I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe

• Vicious Poke in the Eye: Naipaul’s fury · 4 November 2004

  • Magic Seeds by V.S. Naipaul

• Dear God: Patrick McGrath’s Gothic · 19 August 2004

  • Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath

• Who are you?: Paul Auster · 18 March 2004

  • Oracle Night by Paul Auster

• Steaming like a Pie: ‘Going Postal’ · 4 December 2003

  • Mailman by J. Robert Lennon

• Just like Mother: Richard Yates · 6 February 2003

  • Collected Stories by Richard Yates
  • Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
  • The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

• Lonely Metal Souls: Haruki Murakami · 18 October 2001

  • Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel

• Hit the circuit: Michael Ondaatje · 20 July 2000

  • Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

• Very Tight Schedule · 1 June 2000

  • Driving the Heart by Jason Brown

• That’s democracy: Dalton Trumbo · 2 March 2000

  • Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

• Back to the Ironing-Board: Weber and Norman · 15 April 1999

  • The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber
  • The Museum Guard by Howard Norman

• First one, then another, then another, then another after that: Magnus Mills · 26 November 1998

  • The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills

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