Annie Proulx
Fen, Bog & Swamp by Annie Proulx review – where have all our wetlands gone?
In beautiful prose, the Pulitzer-winning US novelist offers a powerful indictment of human complicity in environmental destruction
Rohan Silva
19, Sep, 2022 @6:00 AM
The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage audiobook review – quietly subversive
Sparks fly between rancher brothers in this audiobook version of the 1967 novel, read by Chad Michael Collins
Fiona Sturges
18, Mar, 2022 @12:00 PM
Bill Bryson says he's retiring – is he really putting away his pen?
The beloved American author will be sorely missed, but some writers find it hard to call time on a literary career
Alison Flood
15, Oct, 2020 @12:09 PM
Top 10 novels about moving | C Pam Zhang
From John Steinbeck to Annie Proulx, these books capture changing places as a state of mind as much as geography
C Pam Zhang
29, Apr, 2020 @11:00 AM
Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio turned down Brokeback Mountain
Original director Gus Van Sant has revealed that multiple A-listers turned down the chance to star in the gay romance
Catherine Shoard
19, Jul, 2018 @10:29 AM
Annie Proulx wins high honour for writing on 'the beauty of rural America'
The Shipping News author joins previous winners of the National Book Foundation’s award such as Toni Morrison, Elmore Leonard and Norman Mailer
Alison Flood
22, Sep, 2017 @11:05 AM
Baileys women's prize 2017 longlist sees established names eclipse debuts
Margaret Atwood, Annie Proulx and Rose Tremain lead 16 finalists for £30,000 award, only three of whom are first-time novelists
Danuta Kean
08, Mar, 2017 @12:01 AM
Barkskins review – a grisly tale of chopping down people and trees
Proulx’s sprawling ecological saga is rich in incident but lacks the human touch
Anthony Cummins
19, Jun, 2016 @10:00 AM
Annie Proulx is retiring, but for how long?
Proulx claims she has written her last novel, but as writers from Alice Munro to Stephen King have shown, quitting is easier said than done
John Dugdale
17, Jun, 2016 @2:00 PM
Barkskins by Annie Proulx review – an environmental epic
This ambitious saga about the destruction of the world’s forests follows two colonial dynasties across continents and centuries
Alex Clark
10, Jun, 2016 @6:30 AM
Annie Proulx: ‘I’ve had a life. I see how slippery things can be’
At 80, Annie Proulx is as acute (and prickly) as ever. As her latest book, Barkskins, is published, Lucy Rock visits her woodland home to talk trees, Trump – and why she’s bored with navel-gazing novels
Lucy Rock
05, Jun, 2016 @11:00 AM
Forget Morrissey’s ‘bulbous salutation’, here are my good sex awards | Flic Everett
The singer’s debut novel has been deservedly mocked for its lurid sex scenes. If only he’d studied Flaubert, Kundera or Chaucer before he started writing …
Flic Everett
25, Sep, 2015 @3:46 PM
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