book reviews and features
Cate Haste: Passionate Spirit - The Life of Alma Mahler review - a racy life pacily narrated
Sunday, 16 June 2019
Charismatic, full of vital elan to the end, inconsistent, fitfully creative, a casually anti-semitic Conservative Catholic married to two of the greatest Jewish artists, Alma Mahler/Gropius/Werfel... Read more... |
Anthony B. Atkinson: Measuring Poverty Around the World review - first, second and third world problems
Sunday, 09 June 2019
Five years ago, when the world was still reeling from 2008 and Britain from the swinging axe of George Osborne, Thomas Piketty’s Capital was an unlikely bestseller. It was a book probably... Read more... |
Vasily Grossman: Stalingrad review - a Soviet national epic
Sunday, 02 June 2019
Stalingrad is the companion piece to Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, which on... Read more... |
Hiromi Kawakami: The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino review - Don Juan as a salaryman
Sunday, 26 May 2019
My first, beguiling taste of Hiromi Kawakami’s fiction came when, in 2014, I and my fellow-judges shortlisted Strange Weather in Tokyo for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. That... Read more... |
Thomas Harris: Cari Mora review – mayhem in Miami
Sunday, 19 May 2019
This March, a real-estate office in Miami Beach, Florida, put a parcel of prime seafront land on the market. A vacant estate with plans filed for a luxury mansion, the plot at 5860 North Bay Road... Read more... |
Mike Jay: Mescaline - A Global History of the First Psychedelic review - multiple perspectives
Sunday, 12 May 2019
Humans have been consuming mescaline for millennia. The hallucinogenic alkaloid occurs naturally in a variety of cacti native to... Read more... |
Ben Okri, Brighton Festival 2019 review - adventures in writing
Wednesday, 08 May 2019
If there’s one thing to learn from Ben Okri in this evening of conversation at Brighton Festival... Read more... |
Win a Luxury Weekend for Two to Celebrate Brighton Festival!
Tuesday, 07 May 2019
Brighton Festival is the UK’s leading annual celebration of the arts, with events taking place in venues both familiar and unusual across Brighton & Hove for three weeks every May. This... Read more... |
Leah Hazard: Hard Pushed review - a midwife's tales
Sunday, 05 May 2019
This layered medical memoir by practicing midwife Leah Hazard unpacks riveting tales of all kinds of deliveries and is... Read more... |
Clare Carlisle: Philosopher of the Heart review – how to be human
Sunday, 28 April 2019
How close should a biographer come to her subject? Clare Carlisle stays by the side, and looks through the eyes, of Søren Kierkegaard at almost every step on his maverick journey. Philosopher... Read more... |
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