The Origin of Violence by Fabrice Humbert – review
The success of a French prizewinning debut about wartime horrors is bafflingThe Origin of Violence, Fabrice Humbert's first novel, was an immediate hit when it came out in France in 2009, winning the French Orange prize and the Prix Renaudot. The myste...
Saturday poem: Neighbour
(i.m. Claude M.) By Adam ThorpeYou have to tiptoe over a slopeof terracotta tiles; act the ballerina.A dead weight when he fell,and no EU-ordered rope,only that broken marker-string(on what is termed the "verge"),he caught his foot in. No one,of course...
