Other Writings

Sylvia Brownrigg has been writing reviews and essays for over ten years in a wide range of English and American newspapers and journals. Here you can read a sampling of some of recent and notable pieces. She also has contributed entries to The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English (ed Lorna Sage); The Salon.com Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Authors (ed Laura Miller and Adam Begley); and Books: Over a Century of the Greatest Books, Writers, Characters, Passages and Events that Rocked the Literary World (ed Lucy Daniel).
 

"Witness for the Prosecution"
(The Essential Gore Vidal edited by Fred Kaplan)
April 30, 1999
Times Literary Supplement
 

"Cut to the Chaste"
(On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan)
June 3, 2007
Los Angeles Times Book Review
 

"Emotional geography"
(Jigsaw: an unsentimental education and A Legacy by Sybille Bedford)
March 27, 2000
The New Statesman
 

"Jay McInerney's Spoilt New York Lives: Guilt, Desire and Ambition"
(The Good Life by Jay McInerney)
March 8, 2006
Times Literary Supplement
 

"Your Ad Here"
(The Bulgari Connection by Fay Weldon)
November 4, 2001
The New York Times
 

"High Infidelity: An Interview with Hanif Kureishi"
April/May 1999
The Village Voice
 

"Ground Zero"
(A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus)
September 10, 2006
The New York Times
 

"What is Truth? A Portrait of a Powerful, Driven, Womanizing Artist is Told, After His Death, by the Women in his Life"
(The Great Man: A Novel by Kate Christensen)
August 26, 2007
Los Angeles Times Book Review
 

"Geography is Destiny"
(The Bostons by Carolyn Cooke)
July 15, 2001
The New York Times
 

"How Did We Miss These? Part 2"
(Why Did I Ever by Mary Robison)
September 7, 2007
The Guardian