Ten years of Swimming Home
A decade on, the author returns to her Booker Prize-nominated novel, and finds conflict and mortal danger among the waves.
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Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy is a novelist, playwright and poet. Her work includes the novels Swimming Home (2011) and Hot Milk (2016).
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As I try to relax on the Greek island, which is romantically haunted by Cohen and Marianne Ihlen, I am yet further haunted…
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Can an exhibition of her most intimate possessions bring us any closer to Frida Kahlo?
Deborah Levy visits Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up at the V&A.
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Deborah Levy on Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie: “Britain needs this so much more than Brexit”
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Thank God Paul Morley’s The Age of Bowie doesn't try to be an objective, sensible biography.
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Deborah Levy is charmed by Amit Chaudhuri's introspective and entertaining columns and essays, which range from busyness, to James…
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