New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Tóibín – review
Bold, innovative and funny – a writer and critic tackles family mattersIn the last essay in this collection, Colm Tóibín points out some parallels between James Baldwin's life and writing and Barack Obama's. Both men, as they set about making their...
New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm Tóibín
Bold, innovative and funny – a writer and critic tackles family mattersIn the last essay in this collection, Colm Tóibín points out some parallels between James Baldwin's life and writing and Barack Obama's. Both men, as they set about making their...
My hero: Nadine Gordimer by Tessa Hadley
'No one writes as well as Gordimer about the conscientious unease of privilege'I have a few heroes among living authors – but I've chosen the one who came first, the one who made a bridge for me into the present, out of my love of the classic writing...
My hero: Nadine Gordimer by Tessa Hadley
'No one writes as well as Gordimer about the conscientious unease of privilege'I have a few heroes among living authors – but I've chosen the one who came first, the one who made a bridge for me into the present, out of my love of the classic writing...
Elizabeth Bowen’s strange last novel
Eva Trout, published in the UK in 1969, is a strange and ultimately shocking tale. It has its roots in the author's traumatic childhood and shows her mastery of techniqueEva Trout was Elizabeth Bowen's last novel, published in the UK in 1969; she wrote...
