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Review: Memoirs by Tennessee Williams

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The way I most often describe Tennessee Williams’ memoirs to people is in emphasising the feeling that Williams […]

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Review: Wrestliana by Toby Litt

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In Wrestliana, Litt shares an anecdote, a family joke of how when his son was two, he would […]

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Review: Certain Manoeuvres by Lydia Unsworth

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Lydia Unsworth’s debut collection follows ‘you’ – sometimes ‘us’, or ‘me’, or ‘I’ – around Amsterdam: by foot, […]

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Review: Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso

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At the time she was writing Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso’s personal diary was eight hundred thousand words long. Never […]

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Review: The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon

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Angela Carter is as much a work of fiction now as any of her novels; to use her […]

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Review: Turning by Jessica Lee

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In her memoir ‘Turning’, Jessica Lee swims in the lakes surrounding Berlin all year through, alone and in […]

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Book Review: The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

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When I think about empathy it’s always as opposed to sympathy; sympathy is often wetter, patronising sometimes, and […]

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Book Review: Any Other Mouth, by Anneliese Mackintosh

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Anneliese Mackintosh’s debut short story collection begins on an unnumbered page, obscured among the standard initial copyright & […]

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Book Review: The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head, by Louis Begley

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Franz Kafka is the modern template for ‘tortured genius.’ He once wrote that a book should be “an […]

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Book Review: The Wild Places, by Robert Macfarlane

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Robert Macfarlane must surely be a rarity; he is not only a Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge, he […]

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