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Structurally, tonally, even visually – with text punctuated by grainy black-and-white photographs – Kathleen Jamie’s new essay collection Surfacing takes up the same concerns with landscape…
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Richard Beard’s book is brimful of anger and guilt, fails to deliver an uplifting ending and opens with a death.
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Marina Benjamin on the curious logic of modern identity politics.
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It is no accident that women are writing in ever greater numbers about their mental anguish and pain.
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Marina Benjamin probes the stories of the Columbine killers and the Unabomber through A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold…
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Hotel by Joanna Walsh is deft and imaginative, tripping between references to Katherine Mansfield, Mae West, the Marx Brothers…
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Stephen Spender’s is a life well documented. Now his son has written about him.
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As she prepares for her 50th birthday, the author and journalist reflects on what it means to be “middle-aged”…
ByMarina Benjamin is impressed by the storytelling and cool-headed analysis in Maxim Leo's Red Love: the Story of an…
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