Artistic Licence: Kevin Power

Tearing myself away from the books of guys

Saul Bellow believed in the inherent pre-eminence of the white male literary canon

Every December, I choose my books of the year for this newspaper. These were my picks for 2015: Purity by Jonathan Franzen; The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray; 10:04 by Ben Lerner; The Blue Guitar by John Banville; A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James; Green Glowing Skull by Gavin Corbett; and Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen. I put this list together quickly and fired it off. Only ...