Common sense is no use against it, the heat is too intense for it and, if you are Frank Sinatra, singing your manly heart out in 1957, you are damned if ...
On an oil platform off the coast of Morocco, a worker named Waclaw loses the most important person in his life when his bunkmate, best friend and possible lover Matyás vanishes in a storm, all but ...
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The catastrophe of the First World War led Sigmund Freud to analyse the tensions between the individual and society. Human nature was predisposed towards death and destruction. To create the ...
Not everyone has been looking forward to the publication of Memoirs by Robert Lowell, edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc. “Do we really want more material on the Lowell family saga?’’ ...
“To unlock the mysteries of the universe”, writes the journalist Stephen Kurczy in The Quiet Zone, his highly engaging, first full-length work of non-fiction, “we have to be quiet.” The radio ...
Some years ago, my wife and I were in Jerusalem when we decided to visit the Hasidic neighbourhood of Mea Shearim. During my late teens, I had spent two years studying in a yeshiva just outside ...
Concealed authorship and in-built critique in the whodunnit to end them all ...
A Fairy Tale Unmasked is two books in one. The first part tells the story of a young teacher, Dieter Vaupel, who arrives in a small, idyllic German town, ...
Peggy Guggenheim wrote her own account of her life. She had wanted to call it “Five Husbands and Some Other Men”, though the first of those husbands, Laurence Vail, himself ...
The Berlin-born centenarian scholar Victor Brombert has published a swan-song anthology of essays on his teaching career and literary enthusiasms, among ...
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