“Man Booker prize 2014: Longlist, long faces,” by F.R., The Economist, July 23, 2014.
Ms Tartt’s “Goldfinch”, which won the Pulitzer prize in April, is the most prominent American omission from a list on which two of the most interesting books are Richard Flanagan’s “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” and Richard Powers’s “Orfeo“.