sat 19/07/2025

Boyd Tonkin

Articles By Boyd Tonkin

Omar Robert Hamilton: The City Always Wins review - Egypt's revolution, up close and personal

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Prom 26 review: Frang, Power, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Järvi – fire and air from a crack team

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Prom 23 review: OAE, Christie - scintillating drama in Handel's Israel in Egypt

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Teju Cole: Blind Spot review - haunting hybrid of words and images

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Prom 10 review: Aurora Orchestra, Collon – a revolution taken to heart

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Sarah Hall: Madame Zero review – eerie tales of calamity and change

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Andrew O'Hagan: The Secret Life review – troubling tales from the online underground

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Arundhati Roy: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness review - brilliant fragments of divided India

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Colm Tóibín: House of Names review - bleakly beautiful twilight of the gods

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Sunday Book: Helen Dunmore - Birdcage Walk

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Sunday Book: Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology

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Sunday Book: Tessa Hadley - Bad Dreams

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Sunday Book: Michel Houellebecq - Unreconciled: Poems 1991-2013

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theartsdesk in Cape Town: Summer of nostalgia

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Sunday Book: Günter Grass - Of All That Ends

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Sunday Book: Zadie Smith - Swing Time

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