Claire Messud
Articles by Claire Messud
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Books
Fiction - For all seasons
- 22 August 2005
Either Side of Winter Benjamin Markovits Faber & Faber, 235pp, £10.99 ISBN 0571226655
Books
Future imperfect
- 13 June 2005
The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog Doris Lessing Fourth Estate, 288pp, £15.99 ISBN 0007152809
Books
Another country. Anita Desai's new novel contains many fine descriptions of nature, but the characters are of a ghostly thinness, writes Claire Messud
- 06 September 2004
The Zigzag Way Anita Desai Chatto & Windus, 182pp, 12.99 ISBN 0701177438
Books
Circle of friends
- 17 May 2004
A Chance Meeting: intertwined lives of American writers and artists (1854-1967) Rachel Cohen Jonathan Cape, 363pp, £18.99 ISBN 0224072587
Books
Love, again. It might not be clear what we are to make of the artificiality of Doris Lessing's stories, but they convey greater human truths, writes Claire Messud
- 08 December 2003
The Grandmothers Doris Lessing Flamingo, 311pp, £15.99 ISBN 0007152795
Politics
Perverse rage of the oppressed
- 03 February 2003
Claire Messud on the lessons of Algeria, home to many of those recently arrested as suspected terrorists, and a country where the passion and ruthlessness of al-Qaeda was foreshadowed 50 years ago











