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Caroline Moorehead: A House in the Mountains review – the women's war against Fascism
Sunday, 10 November 2019
In September 1944, a heavily pregnant Resistance activist in the north of German-occupied Italy was arrested on a visit to Milan. Lisetta Giua, a law student and fiancée of the Jewish anti-Fascist... Read more... |
Irenosen Okojie: Nudibranch review - daring and surreal
Sunday, 10 November 2019
Visceral, gaudy, alien, otherworldly to the point of being almost improbably imaginative, the nudibranch serves as an appropriate figure for Nigerian-British writer Irenosen Okojie’s muscularly... Read more... |
Julian Barnes: The Man in the Red Coat review – all that glitters…
Friday, 08 November 2019
“Chauvinism is the worst form of ignorance” is the maxim of Dr Pozzi, the hero of Julian Barnes’s latest book... Read more... |
Michael Connelly: The Night Fire review - unputdownable
Sunday, 03 November 2019
Ballard and Bosch sound like some dystopian upmarket commodity. They are, but deep in with the low life. They are Michael Connolly’s new duo of detectives, one in semi-disgrace, one retired. Throw... Read more... |
Benjamin Markovits: Christmas in Austin review – Essinger family reunion
Sunday, 03 November 2019
Paul Essinger has quit life as a professional tennis player and retired to his native Texas where, over the... Read more... |
Jung Chang: Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister review – China's century in three women's lives
Sunday, 27 October 2019
In 1930, a couple of romantically involved Chinese expats in Berlin – both revolutionaries in their own way – went on a farewell date. One of them, Deng Yan-da, was due to return home to continue... Read more... |
Sarah Hall: Sudden Traveller review - lyrical and luminous
Sunday, 27 October 2019
Movement, flight, searching, the quest for a destination: as its title might suggest, Sarah Hall’s latest ... Read more... |
Chantal Ackerman: My Mother Laughs review - too umbilically linked?
Sunday, 27 October 2019
My Mother Laughs was first published in Chantal Ackerman’s native French in 2013. This year it has been... Read more... |
John le Carré: Agent Running in the Field review - fake news, Brexit and Cold war echoes
Sunday, 20 October 2019
That John le Carré! It turns out the agent isn’t so much running in the field as playing badminton. The master of the ... Read more... |
Hisham Matar: A Month in Siena review – memories, framed
Sunday, 20 October 2019
A Month in Siena is a sweet, short mediation on art, grief, and life. Ostensibly describing the time and... Read more... |
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