When Others Speak
Outline, (2014), Transit (2017), Kudos (2019) by Rachel Cusk, Faber & Faber What is a novelist to do when they wish to speak in their own...
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Apr 17, 20208 min read
A Loner Abroad
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020 The question of whether to regard Garth Greenwell's second book as a novel or...
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Mar 30, 20207 min read
It's like this, Deborah Levy ...
The Man Who Saw Everything, by Deborah Levy, Hamish Hamilton, 2019 It's 1988. Young protagonist Saul Adler gets bashed down by a car as...
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Jan 9, 20206 min read
Real or Not?
Find Me, by Andre Aciman, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019 Personally I would love to be a character in an Aciman novel. For one, his...
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Jan 1, 20204 min read
A drug for our times?
Serotonin, by Michel Houellebecq, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019 While thoroughly un-PC to admit to this nowadays, I have to declare I'm a...
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Dec 29, 20192 min read
Alcott's Laurie
Jo, Meg, Amy, Beth, Marmee ... sure the March women are equal in literary fame and stature to the great heroines of Jane Austen or George...
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Dec 2, 20192 min read
A Tangled Web
The Spell, by Allan Hollinghurst, Chatto & Windus, 1998 What is remarkable about Hollinghurst's fiction is what is usually not remarkable...
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May 24, 20183 min read
Feeding the Habit
Open Book – A Literary Postcard by Ian Holding, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, May 2018 For a bibliophile, living in a country like Zimbabwe...
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