Sunday, 14 May 2023

Granta Issue 163 Best of Young British Novelists

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  Oh dear. Is this really the best? The current issue of Granta (number 163) showcases in 270 pages the work of Young British Novelists w...
Tuesday, 2 May 2023

We Need to Talk about Diacritical Marks

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  At school in the early 1960s we had a History textbook which devoted a chapter to the Reign of Lewis XIV. My  teenage self was scornful: H...
Monday, 3 April 2023

Josephine Tey Miss Pym Disposes

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  I suppose it was commercial publishers who invented the genre novel as something which could be packaged and sold as Crime, Mystery, Hor...
Friday, 31 March 2023

Martin Wolf The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

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  Martin Wolf was born in London in 1946, the first son of war-time Austrian and Dutch Jewish refugees. His is a powerful voice at The Fin...
Wednesday, 22 February 2023

Adolfo Kaminsky by Sarah Kaminsky

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  On the internet there are numerous photographs which testify to the love Sarah Kaminsky felt for her father, Adolfo Kaminsky, who died in ...
Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Do Good Books Get Published More by Luck than Judgment?

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I read two or three books each week, cover to cover, of which maybe half are recently published and mostly from mainstream, major publishers...
Tuesday, 17 January 2023

Running Scared: Dashes, Asterisks, Scare Quotes, Bunny Ears Quotes, Sensitivity Readers

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  Editors and publishers may not have lists but they know a word that they don’t want to see in print when they see it. One dodge employed...