“A work of almost perfect pitch”

CK Stead’s new novel The Secret History of Modernism reviewed inThe Age: “Stead is very clever and he’s comfortable on this ground, patrolling that sometimes misty territory between truth and invention, between history and fiction, with admirable purpose.” The Guardian has an alternative reader-response to Stead’s “infuriating, confusing, yet ultimately provoking take on the masochism of surrendering to narrative.” Link here for Simon Upton’s review of the “splendid literary stoush” between Professor Stead and reviewer Philip Mead in the correspondence columns of The Times Literary Supplement.