On the Shelf: ‘The Adventures of Caleb Williams’
Tom Crewe, 8 October 2020
‘Watching a good plot,’ Penelope Fitzgerald wrote in the LRB (21 February 1980),
is like watching something alive, or if it is adroit and sinuous enough, something struggling for life. Between the once-born and the twice-born plot (which makes the reader, even if he is reading it for the twentieth time, want to interfere at every stage), the difference, of course, is great. But I am...