Leo Robson

Leo Robson is a regular contributor to the New Statesman, the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement.

The Old Consciousness

The Old Consciousness The Old Consciousness

Hilary Mantel and Penelope Fitzgerald have saved historical fiction from a middlebrow wasteland.

Apr 22, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Leo Robson

Made in the USA? Letter From London

Made in the USA? Letter From London Made in the USA? Letter From London

Books about London in its Olympic year and after see Americanization eroding the city’s gift for democratic gradualism.

Mar 27, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Leo Robson

Letters Letters

“Financial, economic, military and political” inertia, fracking, National Socialism, Henry James, the Battle in Seattle

Jan 9, 2013 / Letters / Our Readers and Leo Robson

The Master’s Servants: On Henry James

The Master’s Servants: On Henry James The Master’s Servants: On Henry James

Nothing ages faster than the idea of an “ageless” writer. Consider the posthumous career of Henry James.

Oct 23, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Leo Robson

Ghosts and Machines: On Anne Tyler and Peter Carey

Ghosts and Machines: On Anne Tyler and Peter Carey Ghosts and Machines: On Anne Tyler and Peter Carey

The Beginner’s Goodbye, The Chemistry of Tears and the burden of inheritance.

Jun 5, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Leo Robson

All that Lore: On James Wolcott

All that Lore: On James Wolcott All that Lore: On James Wolcott

The critic James Wolcott has been gamely fighting losing battles for most of his career.

Jan 18, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Leo Robson

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