There are many--Yanks and Brits alike--who think of England in the 1970s as a nation stuck in an eternal teatime of irrelevance, desperately struggling for a smidgen of historical attention through ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Jonathan Coe's iconic 1970s coming-of-age novel, The Rotters' Club is ...

Benjamin Trotter, the teenaged protagonist in Jonathan Coe's new novel, The Rotters' Club, awakens in a closet after his first drunken romp with a girl from school. As he bumbles through the awkward ...

Coe (The Rotters' Club) broadly satirizes the disconnectedness of modern life with the story of Maxwell Sim, who has 70 Facebook friends but no one he can turn to when his wife and daughter leave him.

01. Share It; 02. Lounging There Trying; 03. (Big) John Wayne Socks Psychology In The Jaw; 04. Chaos at the Greasy Spoon; 05. The Yes / No Interlude; 06. Fitter Stoke Has a Bath; 07. Didn't Matter ...

"The Closed Circle" might appear to be just that to some readers. It's a sequel, for one thing -- or rather, a continuation of Jonathan Coe's last novel, "The Rotters Club." That book chronicled the ...

It's 1974, and fifteen-year-olds Ben, Doug and Philip are best mates at a Birmingham grammar school King William's. Ben's older sister Lois isn't much luckier in love, resorting to arranging a date ...

Correction A rogues’ gallery accompanying last week’s story on the House of Lords (“The rotters’ club”) included Charles Nall-Cain, Third Baron Brocket. He is indeed a convicted fraudster, as we said, ...