Philip Womack
Philip Womack is a contributing Editor to Literary Review and literary critic for The Telegraph. His first novel, The Other Book, was published in January 2008.
Articles by Philip Womack
Book review: The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte
Philip Womack on Sam Lipsyte's invention
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Book review: Two novels by Donald Antrim
In republishing a brace of dark and quirky novels by American novellist Donald Antrim, Granta have unearthed a master of suburban gothic, finds Philip Womack
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Book review: Where Have You Been? by Joseph O’Connor
Philip Womack revels in the short stories of Joseph O'Connor
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Book review: The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
Philip Womack experiments with the new Ben Marcus novel
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Book review: A Death in the Family
Karl Ove Knausgaard has been hailed as a new literary star, in his publisher's press release. Philip Womack is not convinced by his "monstrous ego trip"
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Book review: Ragnarok – The End of the Gods
Philip Womack is chilled by AS Byatt's magnificent retelling of the Norse myth
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Book review: The Godless Boys by Naomi Wood
Philip Womack is uninspired by a dystopian debut
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Book review: Apocalypse for Beginners by Nicolas Dickner
Philip Womack is disappointed by the end of the world
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This is How by MJ Hyland
Philip Womack on the terse sophistication of novelist MJ Hyland
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The Fall of the Imam by Nawal El Saadawi
Philip Womack praises a formidable Egyptian novel
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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Philip Womack is blown away by Hilary Mantel's historical epic
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The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Philip Womack grapples with a controversial epic
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Once on a Moonless Night by Dai Sijie
Philip Womack barely survives the tedium of a new Chinese novel
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Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad
Philip Womack finds redemption in a Norwegian classic
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
Philip Womack wonders why Peter Ackroyd has meddled with a classic
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A Good & Happy Child by Justin Evans
Philip Womack is absolutely terrified by a spooky debut novel
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The Sun and Moon Corrupted by Philip Ball
Philip Womack enjoys a popular scientist's debut novel
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Something To Tell You by Hanif Kureishi
Philip Womack has something to tell you about Hanif Kureishi's latest
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Death at Intervals by José Saramago
Philip Womack admires another fable from Nobel Laureate José Saramago
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The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Philip Womack is unilluminated by Richard Powers
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Minding by Chris Paling
Philip Womack is impressed by Chris Paling's mind
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The Condor’s Head by Ferdinand Mount
Philip Womack enjoys a meeting of old and new worlds
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