Gertrude Stein’s quest for fame
The modernist phenomenon believed bad attention was better than none at all.
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Why Philip Larkin’s lover deserved better than to be the butt of abusive caricatures.
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I felt I was entering the adult world.
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Annie Ernaux: the objective, unseen reporter of her times
Ernaux’s The Years draws not only on her own life but on her long “communal memory”.
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Jaeggy writes powerfully of communities of adolescent girls: stagnant, hothouse worlds of spying and crushes.
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Margaret Drabble: Why I was wrong about Georges Perec
It took me a long time to get to grips with Perec, but I'm glad I did.
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Theatrical knotweed: Margaret Drabble journeys around Shakespeare’s globe
It is hard to characterise Andrew Dickson’s Worlds Elsewhere – it is a discursive, rambling, global volume.
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