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observer.co.uk | Alex Clark
The US-based Irish author on the inevitable decline of the novelist, fulfilling a lifelong ambition by writing for opera – and why he won’t even look at Trump Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, the setting for several of his novels, including Brooklyn, Nora Webster and, most recently, Long Island, out in paperback on 5 June, in which Eilis Lacey, the character brought to life by Saoirse Ronan in the film adaptation of Brooklyn, returns home from her life in the US.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Alex Clark
Last month, the New York Public Library opened the doors on one of its most thrilling acquisitions of recent times: the archive of Joan Didion and her husband and collaborator John Gregory Dunne.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Alex Clark
The Iranian political prisoner Sepideh Gholian’s account of life on the women’s wards in Bushehr and Evin prisons is a blindsiding blend of horrifying concrete detail, dizzying surrealism and wild optimism. In every line and in every moment it attempts to recreate, it is entirely and unconditionally defiant. For the reader, discombobulation comes from (at least) two directions.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Alex Clark
What do law and literature have in common? Do they represent similar impulses towards understanding human motives and behaviour, or are they fundamentally different systems? In his new book, 38 Londres Street, lawyer and writer Philippe Sands revisits the attempts to extradite and prosecute former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, beginning in 1998, in which he was involved.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Alex Clark
It might seem unfathomable to us now, but F Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel was something of a let-down when it was published 100 years ago; his previous books, This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned – there had also been a novella, The Diamond As Big As the Ritz, and short stories including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – had been more commercially successful and found greater favour with critics.
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