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In the Current Issue: Howard Davies on Bernard Mandeville * Claire Harman on Emily Dickinson * Stephen Smith on Piet Mondrian * Colin Jones on fools * Thomas Hodgkinson on Hollywood flops * Dennis Duncan on blank pages * Peter Davidson on Henry Fuseli * Deirdre McCloskey on Ayn Rand * Richard Davenport-Hines on Clarissa Eden * Peter Marshall on monasteries * Laura Ashe on medieval women ...
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In the Current Issue: About halfway through this novel, an astronaut called Pietro reflects that ‘if you could get far enough away from the earth you’d be able finally to understand it’. This is a neat summation of one of the themes of Samantha Harvey’s slim fifth novel, which has been shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize. Stand as far back as you can imagine and say what you see.
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux - review by Allan Massie - Literary …
Paul Theroux is the author of more than fifty books. Thirty-three of them have been novels – and this is the thirty-fourth. While assiduous and always interesting as a novelist, he is probably better known for his travel books, some of which have been bestsellers.
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Howard Davies on Bernard Mandeville * Claire Harman on Emily Dickinson * Stephen Smith on Piet Mondrian * Colin Jones on fools * Thomas Hodgkinson on Hollywood flops * Dennis Duncan on blank pages * Peter Davidson on Henry Fuseli * Deirdre McCloskey on Ayn Rand * Richard Davenport-Hines on Clarissa Eden * Peter Marshall on monasteries * Laura Ashe on medieval women * Charles Shaar Murray on ...
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That ...
W ith The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of course, is most literary criticism. The Real Lolita is, by any measure, a unique and very peculiar book.. The sad real-life story of Sally Horner, as recounted by Weinman, goes like this.
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd - review by Bryan Appleyard - Literary …
‘To see Dickens day by day,’ writes Peter Ackroyd, ‘making his way, the incidents of his existence shaping his fiction just as his fiction alters his life, the same pattern of emotion and imagery rising up from letters and novels and conversations, the same momentum and the same desire for control – to see Dickens thus is to turn biography into an agent of true knowledge…’
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal - review by Gillian Tindall
Gillian Tindall: After Hours in the Museum - Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
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