Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist currently facing trial for referring to his country's massacre of Armenians, considers the work of great European writers and reflects on Turkey's place in the Union in this week's Review. The book of the week, No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, reviewed by Annie Proulx, carries us over to deepest Texas, while Mary Beard returns us to ancient Greece with a round up of the current crop of books revisiting Greek myths. Elsewhere, the gourmets among you will enjoy William Leith's review of The Kitchen Diaries, Nigel Slater's "superb" follow-up to Toast, while the gourmands can turn their attention to the suitably gargantuan Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America.
In fiction, Michael Worton considers Michel Houellebecq's latest novel, Jessica Mann enjoys The Lighthouse, PD James's new Adam Dalgliesh novel, and Margaret Stead looks at the debuts of two young South African authors, Rachel Zadok and Troy Blacklaws. On the poetry front, William Wootten gets to grips with Roy Fisher's collected poems, while in children's literature Kathryn Hughes reviews Melvyn Burgess's latest novel - the second book in his Volsunga Saga series - and finds him as powerful and disturbing as ever. Finally, Wendy Lesser reveals the secret of her new capsule library, and Paul Bailey rereads the novels of Alfred Hayes. And that's just for starters. If you can't make it to your newsagent, read the whole thing here.
