Theo Tait
Theo Tait is deputy editor of the Week.
In the LRB Archive:
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The Whole Point of Friends: Dunthorne’s Punchlines · 22 March 2018
- The Adulterants by Joe Dunthorne
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Some will need to be killed: Mohsin Hamid · 16 November 2017
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
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Three Minutes of Darkness: Hari Kunzru · 27 July 2017
- White Tears by Hari Kunzru
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Bloody Brilliant Banter: ‘A Natural’ · 4 May 2017
- A Natural by Ross Raisin
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But this is fateful!: Jonathan Lethem · 16 March 2017
- The Blot: A Novel by Jonathan Lethem
- The Blot by Jonathan Lethem and Laurence Rickels
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The Atom School: J.M. Coetzee · 3 November 2016
- The Schooldays of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee
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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
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I’m hip. I live in New York: Leonard Michaels · 3 March 2016
- Sylvia by Leonard Michaels
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Born to Lying: Le Carré · 3 December 2015
- John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman
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Belfryful of Bells: John Banville · 19 November 2015
- The Blue Guitar by John Banville
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A Turn for the Woowoo: David Mitchell · 4 December 2014
- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
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Ways of Being Interesting: Ian McEwan · 11 September 2014
- The Children Act by Ian McEwan
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Water-Borne Zombies · 6 March 2014
- Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean by Lisa-Ann Gershwin
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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
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The Hemingway Crush: Kevin Powers · 3 January 2013
- The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
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Don’t wear yum-yum yellow: Shark Attack! · 2 August 2012
- Demon Fish: Travels through the Hidden World of Sharks by Juliet Eilperin
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Most losers are self-made men: Richard Ford · 5 July 2012
- Canada by Richard Ford
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This is me upside down: ‘Kapow!’ · 7 June 2012
- Kapow! by Adam Thirlwell
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The Absolute End: Ali Smith · 26 January 2012
- There but for the by Ali Smith
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Eagle v. Jellyfish: Edward St Aubyn · 2 June 2011
- At Last by Edward St Aubyn
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‘The Killing’ · 31 March 2011
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It belonged to us: Tristan Garcia · 17 March 2011
- Hate: A Romance by Tristan Garcia, translated by Marion Duvert and Lorin Stein
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A Bit of Ginger: Gordon Burn · 5 June 2008
- Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel by Gordon Burn
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Feral Hippies: Peter Carey goes astray · 6 March 2008
- His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
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Just a Big Silver Light: Alan Warner · 25 May 2006
- The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven by Alan Warner
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A Pair of Lobsters in a Murky Tank: James Lasdun · 9 March 2006
- Seven Lies by James Lasdun
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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
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Flame-Broiled Whopper: Salman Rushdie · 6 October 2005
- Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie
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Twinkly: Beyond the Barnes persona · 1 September 2005
- Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
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Through Their Eyes: Abdulrazak Gurnah remembers Zanzibar · 7 July 2005
- Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Everlasting Fudge: The Difficult Fiction of Cynthia Ozick · 19 May 2005
- The Bear Boy by Cynthia Ozick
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Fancy Patter: Holmes and the Holocaust · 31 March 2005
- The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
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Rutrutrutrutrutrutrutrut: Tom Wolfe’s Bloody Awful Novel · 6 January 2005
- I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
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Vicious Poke in the Eye: Naipaul’s fury · 4 November 2004
- Magic Seeds by V.S. Naipaul
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Dear God: Patrick McGrath’s Gothic · 19 August 2004
- Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath
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Who are you?: Paul Auster · 18 March 2004
- Oracle Night by Paul Auster
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Steaming like a Pie: ‘Going Postal’ · 4 December 2003
- Mailman by J. Robert Lennon
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Just like Mother: Richard Yates · 6 February 2003
- Collected Stories by Richard Yates
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
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Lonely Metal Souls: Haruki Murakami · 18 October 2001
- Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel
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Hit the circuit: Michael Ondaatje · 20 July 2000
- Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
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Very Tight Schedule · 1 June 2000
- Driving the Heart by Jason Brown
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That’s democracy: Dalton Trumbo · 2 March 2000
- Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
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Back to the Ironing-Board: Weber and Norman · 15 April 1999
- The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber
- The Museum Guard by Howard Norman
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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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