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Frances Wilson’s biography of Thomas De Quincey is superb, written with enormous empathy and insight.
Read MoreHelen Dunmore’s astounding final novel is a fascinating take on a family of radicals living in Bristol, England during the French Revolution.
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Schutt’s is an example of the kind of fiction that is being taken seriously in too many quarters in this new century, but that is not nearly good enough.
Read MoreIris Murdoch proves a wonderful companion: funny, honest, insightful, and courageous.
Read MoreDaisy Hay turns her sharp yet sympathetic eye on Mary Anne and Benjamin Disraeli, whose marriage seemed unlikely at the start but which grew into something not only strange but, even in modern terms, amazing.
Read MoreWhen the septuagenarian protagonist of this novel finally gets out of her claustrophobic apartment, everything changes.
Read MoreIn his novel, Sayed Kashua paints such a vivid picture of modern Jerusalem that I found myself longing to see that city again; he also portrays a whole spectrum of Arab life in Israel — from the poor families visited by the social workers to the ambitious Arab mothers and their sometimes feckless sons — with empathy and humor.
Read MoreOne must be impressed by memoirist Matthew Spender, who refuses to descend into resentment or anything resembling self-pity despite a very strange childhood.
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What a pleasure it is to revel in this work, which expresses enduring values in such an original way.
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