The Position of Spoons is flawed but fascinating
Deborah Levy’s latest book is a sketch of the author in motion
Book review - essays
Monday
Tuesday
The Soviets brought far from home
Kilometer 101 explores political undesirables who were exiled from Moscow
Thursday
David Sedaris, the current king of humourists, is often not funny at all
Calypso is quite repetitive, especially when it comes to what is really its main concern: houses.
Friday
The changing face of war and heroism
On War and Writing by Samuel Hynes is hardly about war at all. There is little about combat here, or the actual business of fighting and killing — what Shakespeare wryly called ‘the fire-eyed maid of smoky war/ All hot and bleeding’. Hynes is an august scholar of English literature and particularly the literature of … Read more
