Digested read podcast: The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett
John Crace explores his thespian side

John Crace explores his thespian side
'How dare you, sir!' Edith Wharton's 1870s portrait of high-class New York mores is taken downtown by John Crace
John Crace reminds us that there's no I in socalsm or totaltaransm
John Crace becomes tragically incoherent
John Crace attempts to believe in a smooth-talking 65-year-old 'lesbo converter', but he can't keep it up
John Crace makes some startling discoveries about the economics of sequel-writing
Ben Elton's new novel, set in a world of financial mayhem, suffers a severe crash in the hands of John Crace
John Crace tails George Smiley's first outing as a spy, but whose side is he on?
John Crace unpicks The Authorized History of MI5 and feels the wool being pulled over his eyes
John Crace digests this year's Booker Prize winner: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
John Crace gets lost in thickets of leaden prose as he unravels the mysteries of Dan Brown's new crypto-thriller
John Crace is cast adrift on the seas of Sylvia Townsend Warner's classic, Mr Fortune's Maggot
John Crace sets off in deadly pursuit of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
John Crace traces the evolution of the greatest scientist on earth in Richard Dawkins's latest Darwinian masterpiece
John Crace does obeisance before William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother
John Crace endures an orgy of sex and philosophy as he wrestles his way out of the ashram
John Crace goes to the Potteries
John Crace. Writes. In very. Short sentences.
John Crace bids to become Master of the Novelverse
John Crace embarks on a a GLITZKRIEG of PRETENTIOUSNESS
John Crace builds some nodding-off breaks into his reading
John Crace retouches his roots
John Crace is like, whatever, about a chick-lit ghost story
Stand by for a spot of hedonism and moral recklessness as John Crace distills another literary classic
John Crace bites the head off Norman Tebbit's cookbook and shoves it in the oven for a good roasting
John Crace throws some spanners in the works
John Crace tries to go for an entire column without sex
John Crace heads out to the Grimpen Mire
John Crace attempts to get over the Moon
John Crace has a quick search for lost time