Sunday, 29 October 2017

Review: Tim Parks, The Novel: a Survival Skill

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In 1970, aged 16, Tim Parks wrote a school essay for which he expected an A grade. Instead he got a D with the explanatory comment “B...
Friday, 8 September 2017

Review: Michael Rosen So They Call You Pisher!

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Writing autobiography and memoir is a perilous business.  We forget and what we do remember has often been re-arranged in our minds ...
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Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Review: Svetlana Alexievich, The Unwomanly Face of War

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In 1978, Svetlana Alexievich (1948- ) began the interviews which comprise this book. It was turned down for publication in 1983, but ...
Sunday, 27 August 2017

A Life in Books

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I began reading grown-up books when I was twelve or thirteen and by grown-up I mean Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner and Edgar Wallac...
Saturday, 26 August 2017

Review: Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population

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On my desktop I have a Word doc. titled “The Surplus Population” and it is in the context of a desire to expand on that title that I ...
Saturday, 12 August 2017

Review: Alison Bechdel, The Fun Home

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I don’t think I have read a comic book / graphic novel since the first volumes of Maus and I only read this one because it was sent t...
Wednesday, 9 August 2017

Review: Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

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When you publish a book, anyone can read it and make what they will of it. That truth is strikingly demonstrated by Maggie Nelson whe...