Jonathan Raban

May 20, 2024 | newyorker.com | Jonathan Raban

Talk story about accused nanny Louise Woodward. Watching news clips from the Louise Woodward trial, I found myself suffering, not for the first time, from acute double vision. My English eyes saw one thing; my American-resident eyes saw something else altogether. With one pair, I was for acquittal; with the other, I was for conviction. Shoulders hunched submissively forward, eyes lowered, voice a humble whisper, Ms. Woodward made a good impression as an English church mouse.

Feb 7, 2024 | thewholeu.uw.edu | Bonnie Garmus |Jonathan Raban |Ilyon Woo |Chloe Gong

University Book Store staff recommends a dozen enthralling books of love Posted on by University Book Store. This entry was posted in Engaging Interests and tagged university book store. Bookmark the permalink. Who wrote the book of love?

Jan 11, 2024 | shepherd.com | Kim Brown Seely |M. Blanchet |Jonathan Raban |Herman Melville

The Curve of Time is a Northwest classic of coastal cruising. It’s a marvelous book with an almost dreamlike quality by a woman who, left a widow in 1927, packs her five children onto a 25-foot motor launch and explores the complex waters of  British Columbia summer after summer. Blanchet's account of their unstructured days in Desolation Sound reads almost like fiction, but her adventures are all very real. Why should I read it?

Sep 22, 2023 | lmtonline.com | Jonathan Raban |Carl Hoffman

"Father and Son: A Memoir" By Jonathan Raban Knopf. 323 pp. $28 - - - It should come as no surprise that when even self-described "progressive" White men of a certain age gather in private, they often bellyache about their loss of unrivaled centrality. But all it takes is rereading a classic of travel writing to realize how bad things used to be - and not even that long ago.

Sep 19, 2023 | powells.com | Jonathan Raban

A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life-changing stroke, twined to a powerful account of his father's experience in World War II, by a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.