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The Guardian: Guardian review

Saturday 4 September 2010

Features & reviews p2

Over the moon: Adam Phillips on the happiness myth

We all want to be happy, we want our children to be happy, and there are countless books advising us how to achieve happiness. But is this really what we should be aiming for?

Features & reviews p5

My hero: Jane Ellen Harrison

by Mary Beard

Features & reviews p6

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

Week three: Colm Tóibín on the influences that shaped his novel Brooklyn
Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin selected and edited by Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare

Bruce Chatwin's letters are as much a performance as anything else he wrote, says Blake Morrison

Features & reviews p7

Why Mahler? by Norman Lebrecht and The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs

Stephen Moss steels himself for two music-lovers' personal odysseys
Et Cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice

The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger, Exploring Happiness by Sissela Bok and Smart Swarm by Peter Miller
My Father's Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn

Andrew Motion is moved by Michael Frayn's gentle memoir

Features & reviews p8

The Masque of Africa by VS Naipaul

The great novelist seems to have had an unhappy time, Giles Foden discovers
Sean Connery by Christopher Bray

This biography of Sean Connery by an adoring fan just misses the mark, says Simon Callow

Features & reviews p9

What Ever Happened to Moderism? by Gabriel Josipovici

Gabriel Josipovici's essay is a welcome counterblast in conservative times, says Tom McCarthy
Duel at Dawn by Amir Alexander

Robert Hanks on the romance of maths and the age of Enlightenment
The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution by Timothy Taylor

Peter Forbes is fascinated by a study of the role of early technology in human evolution

Features & reviews p10

Fame by Daniel Kehlman, translated by Carol Brown Janeway

Alberto Manguel acclaims Daniel Kehlman's meditation on technology and reality
First novels

The Butterfly Cabinet by Bernie McGill, The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon, Farundell by LR Fredericks and Quilt by Nicholas Royle
Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam

Justine Jordan is impressed by a touching post-apocalyptic novel

Features & reviews p11

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shyteyngart

It's funny, it's clever and it's too much, says Tibor Fischer
Zero History by William Gibson

Steven Poole on William Gibson's latest riffs on fashion and espionage
My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin

Laura Barnett finds that it takes Daisy Goodwin a while to get into her stride

Features & reviews p13

Ten of the best religious zealots in literature

From Defoe's Solomon Eagle to Updike's Ahmad Mulloy

Features & reviews p14

My Name Is Mina by David Almond

The prequel to Skellig is even better than the original, says Marcus Sedgwick
In the Flesh by Adam O'Riordan

Sarah Crown is beguiled by an elegant debut preoccupied with loss and the passage of time

Features & reviews p15

Author, author: Adrian Mole, aka Sue Townsend

'I read Tony Blair A Journey all night and into the early hours. At 5.10am I had a revelation. Mr Blair surrounded himself with Alpha Males'
Critical eye: book reviews roundup

My Father's Fortune by Michael Frayn, Shades of Greene by Jeremy Lewis and the Letters of Bruce Chatwin

Features & reviews p16

Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground

He transformed photography and laid the foundations for motion pictures, but Eadweard Muybridge has always been dogged by controversy. His biographer, Rebecca Solnit, defends the great innovator against a new campaign of innuendo

Features & reviews p17

From Bethlem to Bedlam

18th-century Bethlem – chains, belts, purges, bleeding and thousands of visitors gawping at the inmates. Nell Leyshon on the asylum that inspired her latest play

Features & reviews p18

Marine Court: Hymn to the Sun

A crumbling art deco apartment block designed to resemble the Queen Mary is one of the glories of England's south coast. Iain Sinclair is seduced by its faded charms

Features & reviews p19

Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum

Nicholas Lezard enjoys rare insights into the life of a favourite writer

Features & reviews p20

A Kite for Aibhín, after 'L'Aquilone' by Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)

by Seamus Heaney

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