Dickens of detroit

5 min read

Dickens of Detroit

A crime writer who offered ‘gritty, realistic portrayals of American low

This article is from...

The TLS Magazine

15 August, 2025

Read this article and 8000+ more magazines and newspapers on Readly

The Critic

Life, imaginary love and forbidden lust

Blinding: The Left Wing Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu, trans. by ...

The Week UK

The list

Best books… Roy Foster The emeritus professor of ...

Crime Monthly

A writer confesses

BESTSELLING AUTHOR SUK PANNU ON WHAT INFLUENCES HIS WRITING

The TLS

The gutter life

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz Berlin ShuffleTranslated by Philip Boehm256pp. Pushkin. £18.99. The exhumation of Alexander Boschwitz (1915–42) is one of the more pleasing literary stories of recent times.

The Critic

The hounding of a poet and teacher

Michael Henderson on Radio SWIFT PRESS; RADIO 4; ...

My Weekly

My life in books

Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

The Critic

Life, imaginary love and forbidden lust

Blinding: The Left Wing Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu, trans. by ...

The Week UK

The list

Best books… Roy Foster The emeritus professor of ...

Crime Monthly

A writer confesses

BESTSELLING AUTHOR SUK PANNU ON WHAT INFLUENCES HIS WRITING

The TLS

The gutter life

The Critic