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Back to SearchIan Patterson & Ali Smith: Books – A Manifesto
In Books: A Manifesto (Weidenfeld) subtitled How to Build a Library, poet and critic Ian Patterson reflects on a life spent with and formed by books.…
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Stephen Grosz & Helen MacDonald: Love’s Labour
In his bestselling debut The Examined Life psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz explored how we learn to live. Now in Love’s Labour (Chatto) he turns to the e…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Ruby Tandoh & Olivia Sudjic: All Consuming
In All Consuming (Serpent’s Tail) Ruby Tandoh wittily explores the way we eat now, from social media to restaurant critics to the perfect dinner part…
4 weeks ago
Lorna Goodison & Fawzia Muradali Kane: Dante’s Inferno
Leading Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison will be in London to present her latest work, Dante’s Inferno (Carcanet). As much a transformation as a translat…
1 month ago
Michael Symmons Roberts & Hannah Westland on John Burnside
The Empire of Forgetting (Cape) is the final collection of the Scottish poet, novelist and essayist John Burnside, who died in May last year. Fellow …
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Miriam Toews & Octavia Bright: A Truce That Is Not Peace
In her first work of non-fiction A Truce That Is Not Peace (4th Estate), acclaimed novelist Miriam Toews spirals out from a question asked of her at …
1 month ago
Camilla Grudova & Jennifer Hodgson: Ágota Kristóf’s ‘I Don’t Care’
Forced to leave her native Hungary by the 1956 suppression of the Hungarian Uprising, Ágota Kristóf took up residence in Switzerland and began writin…
1 month, 1 week ago
Lauren Elkin & Lou Stoppard on Simone de Beauvoir
Inspired by the new editions of Simone de Beauvoir’s 1966 novel The Image of Her and travel diary America Day by Day (Vintage), translator and noveli…
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Ariel at 60: Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Lavinia Greenlaw & Richard Scott
Sylvia Plath’s second collection Ariel (Faber) was published in 1965, two years after the poet’s death, in a version somewhat reconfigured from her d…
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Edna Bonhomme & Rachel Connolly: A History of the World in Six Plagues
Cholera, HIV/AIDS, the Spanish Flu, Sleeping Sickness, Ebola and COVID-19 – in Edna Bonhomme’s groundbreaking analysis of six pivotal moments in medi…
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