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• New Poetry

  Some of the most criminally unappealing sentences have been written in the service of talking about poetry. Poems are like wine in the way they can lead their... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• That Difficult Next Book

  

  I knew I’d have trouble finding the right book after She Left Me The Gun. What I wanted was something not too long and not too serious, amusing if at all... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• She Left Me The Gun

  

  When I finished this book, I felt that, in an ideal world, it might be good not to read anything else for a week or so. The story was so powerfully told that... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Leopard

  

  was Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s only novel and he wrote it late in life. So late, in fact, that he had no clue it would be published 18 months after his... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Red Book

  

  I would never have read The Red Book if I hadn’t first had my attention drawn by those two whip-smart women at Shelf Love to this article by Deborah Copaken... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Women’s Writing: Some Issues, Old and New

  

  Christine de Pizan, one of the first chroniclers of women’s writingThroughout history, women have written. But it has only been at the far end of the twentieth... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Alys Always

  

  Isn’t it funny how some books slip the reviewing net? In my case, they are so often novels I’ve really enjoyed but which don’t immediately provoke a critical... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Round House

  

  Thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts and his father, a judge on the Ojibwe reservation where they live, are digging out fledgling tree roots that threaten to undermine... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Yes, But I Don’t Like Him

  

  I suppose if there was a message to the 20th century, it was that there is no longer anyone trustworthy at the wheel. Not necessarily in a cosmic sense, but in... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Friday Bullets

  1. I should really be writing a very serious review of Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, which was a stunning novel. But Friday is never a good day for that sor... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Julie and Romeo

  

  Well, you cannot say that this blog does not bring you variety. After a week of spies, behold we are entering the land of retirement romance. Is there even a... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sweet Tooth

  

  The last book for spy week is Sweet Tooth, written allegedly by Ian McEwan. It may be that reading so much about espionage has given me a conspiracy complex, bu... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Red Joan

  

  This novel is based on a true story from 1999, in which 87-year-old Melita Norwood was identified as one of the most important and longest-serving Soviet spies... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Girl In Berlin

  

  So it’s spy novels all this week and first up is a very classy example of the genre indeed, Elizabeth Wilson’s The Girl in Berlin. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ten Reasons We Love Spies

  

  1. The original meaning of the word spy comes from the ancient Chinese and means ‘a chink’, ‘a crack’ or a ‘crevice’. Hence the iconic image of spying – the... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Hunger Games

  

  When Mr Litlove declared he wanted to watch The Hunger Games movie on the weekend, I was surprised. I didn’t have him down for that kind of thing at all. And... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Loveliest Month

  

  It strikes me as a bit cheap on the part of the weather gods that we are only allowed one May in a calendar year. I love it so; the crisp new leaves bursting ou... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• May Reading

  

  As is so often the case, my eyes have proved to be bigger than my stomach, and despite reading every available moment, I realise I’m not going to get through al... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Letter I’ll Never Send

  To my lovely son,So, my darling, it turns out to be harder than we think to find the right words to say, and the right time to say them. So much is happening fo... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 SELF EXPRESSION

• Crime in Brief

  

  The Cutting Season – Attica LockeBelle Vie is a gorgeous antebellum mansion, restored to its former glory and now the site of weddings and conferences,... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE