Book reviews

Bitesize book reviews of fiction and non-fiction titles (for detailed analysis of fiction, see Literature).

Boy meets girl but falls in love with her bank account in Ira Levin’s first novel

Joe Buck dreams of hustling women for fast cash but New York has other ideas

Walter Tevis’s sci-fi novel inspects what it means to be human

Krakauer gets under the skin of modern-day faith and spirituality

How the Mob won – and lost – Las Vegas

The dark legacy of the world’s highest mountain