The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make…

- Philip Hensher

I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.

- Philip Hensher

Fiction allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading …

- Philip Hensher