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Trust no one: how Le Carré's Little Drummer Girl predicted our dangerous world
Secret interrogations, elaborately staged deceptions, conspiracies and murder ... John le Carré’s murky spy thriller could not be more relevantDavid Cornwell, or John le Carré, as we usually call him, must have been wincing as he viewed the CCTV stills of those two Russian visitors to Salisbury. He was surely shaking his head in dismay as he watched their la […]
‘The streets are haunted’ – Colm Tóibín explores literary Dublin
The house where Oscar Wilde grew up and where James Joyce was let down, the library where WB Yeats studied … the Irish capital is full with the ghosts of great writersThere is a peculiar intensity about some streets in Dublin that gets more layered the longer you live in the city and the more stray memories and associations you build up. With time, thoughts […]
Schadenfreude review – is our zeitgeist a Spitegeist?
Tiffany Watt Smith’s delightful book, full of jokes and confessions, divides examples of laughing at others’ misfortunes into good and badWhen I interviewed Daniel Craig for his first outing as James Bond, his pecs were ripped, his clothes elegant, his manner intolerably genial. The whole package was that of an alpha male at ease under interrogation by a bab […]
Danez Smith: ‘I’ve never read Invisible Man. Please don’t take my black writer card’
The prizewinning poet on the pleasures of Andrea Lawlor, Willie Perdomo and the ‘best novel ever written’The book I am currently readingI’m loving Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor. It’s pulling at my little queer midwestern heartstrings to read magical Paul navigate desire and friendship in his body that he can change into whatever shape […]
The Way Past Winter by Kiran Millwood Hargrave review – a quest to the frozen north
Sibling love drives this richly imagined adventure from the author of The Girl of Ink and Stars“It was a winter they would tell tales about. A winter that arrived so sudden and sharp it stuck birds to branches, and caught the rivers in such a frost their spray froze. A winter that came and never left.” So begins Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s ode to the frozen no […]

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