Adam Phillips reviews Gary Greenberg's MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION

Government attempts to legislate virtue are like a noose around the necks of fiction writers. Lionel Shriver is appalled and claims the right for her characters to offend

In the post-religious world of Philip Roth's fiction, humans do not have immortal souls. Death and desire is all we are. A S Byatt on a brief and bleak morality tale for our times