If you know much about the state of contemporary journalism, this will sound like pure folly. It’s not meant to be; the book, written in 1998, is set at the turn of the millennium, before Sept ...

It takes guts to write a satire about terrorism — and Lionel Shriver has guts. She has already published biting novels about the failings of the U.S. healthcare system (“So Much for That ...

By Lionel Shriver. Harper, $27. When Lionel Shriver wrote The New Republic in 1998, her lack of previous commercial success made it impossible to find a U.S. publisher.

Not many people knew who Lionel Shriver was in 1998. That's when she wrote "The New Republic," a novel about journalists and terrorism.Back then, Shriver wasn't yet famous for her brutal ...

Her actual seventh novel, The New Republic, a satire of the media, terrorism, xenophobia and the cult of personality, finished in 1998, couldn't find a publisher. Shriver writes in an author's ...

Lionel Shriver's latest novel is set in Barba, a fictional peninsula which juts out (like a beard) from Portugal's southern border. No one would take much notice of it but for the existence of a ...

Harper, $26.99. Lionel Shriver wrote her latest novel, The New Republic, before the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and, according to the book’s foreword, held it back until both her sales record and ...

'The New Republic' by Lionel Shriver 'The New Republic' by Lionel Shriver. News. Home Page ... It’s not meant to be; the book, written in 1998, is set at the turn of the millennium, ...

Lionel Shriver is arguably a great writer — witty and inventive with a skewed sensibility that can be gripping, chilling or hilarious. But The New Republic , though a fairly diverting novel ...

The New Republic is an oddity. Its problem is partly its tone, lurching between farce and unremitting psychological explication of Edgar’s every impulse. Shriver seems to mistake being vicious ...

For Lionel Shriver, who describes her sales record back then as “poisonous”, it proved impossible. So her newly published novel, The New Republic, isn’t new at all.