Edward St. Aubyn returns with a wide-ranging narrative anchored by a schizophrenic patient. By Dwight Garner Taylor Jenkins Reid heads to space, Megan Abbott climbs a pyramid (scheme) and Gary ...

This elegant and witty satire on the dissatisfactions of family life, which continues the story of Patrick Melrose, the hero of St. Aubyn's U.S. debut (Some Hope ), opens in August 2000 at Patrick's ...

Years ago in an undergraduate Shakespeare paper I posited that the lustful sisters of “King Lear,” Goneril and Regan, might have been affected by stages of the moon often mentioned in that play. “A ...

In the opening chapter of Edward St. Aubyn’s Dunbar, King Lear has been reimagined as a once-formidable Canadian media mogul, Henry Dunbar. Having been deposed from his position of power and exiled to ...

The actor will narrate the audiobook of 'Patrick Melrose' author's new novel. By Lexy Perez Associate Editor Set between London, Cap d’Antibes, Big Sur, and a rewilded corner of Sussex, Aubyn’s novel ...

The reason for the disorientation soon becomes apparent. The book’s first chapter revolves around a young Englishman named Sebastian, who is schizophrenic and a patient in the suicide observation room ...

It's a novel that throws its reader in at the deep end, where that end is made of "streaks of bacteria" and "vigorous mycorrhizal networks" that would take a biology degree (or a browser) to decipher.

Eleanor Melrose has died, and her son Patrick is attending her memorial service at the opening of this brilliant, introspective, and witty novel from St. Aubyn, the fifth, and presumably final, in the ...

It’s becoming difficult, alas, to ignore the chasm in quality between Edward St. Aubyn’s quintet of autobiographical novels and the rest of his fiction. That goes for his new book “Dunbar,” a flimsy, ...

Benedict Cumberbatch, this generation’s English Actor — most people know him as Sherlock Holmes or Doctor Strange, but he plays Shakespeare too — is the star of “Patrick Melrose,” a highly satisfying ...

Edward St. Aubyn’s new novel is a retelling of “King Lear,” an undertaking that the widely admired British author has approached with plenty of cheek. “Dunbar” is brisk, biting and, despite the ...

It's a novel that throws its reader in at the deep end, where that end is made of "streaks of bacteria" and "vigorous mycorrhizal networks" that would take a biology degree (or a browser) to decipher.