Sutherland John Books
The war on the old
"John Sutherland examines the intergenerational conflict as a new kind of 'war' in which institutional neglect and universal indifference to the old has reached aggressive, and routinely lethal, le...
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The boy who loved books
John Sutherland's childhood ended before it began: when his father was killed flying a Wellington bomber. Half-orphaned, John was abandoned when his widowed mother decamped to Argentina with a new...
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How to read a novel
Sutherland argues that reading well is almost as difficult as writing well. With almost 2000 books published each week, how do you choose? Using examples from writers as diverse as Tolstoy, Coetzee...
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