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In more pedantic hands, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen could easily have been a tedious and frustrating read. Instead, despite the dense and ultimately inconclusive source material, the book is continuously fascinating.
It’s worth pointing out that Sabahattin Ali has deliberately reversed traditional gender roles in Madonna in a Fur Coat.
This slender memoir reads like a rambling conversation with a literary stranger you meet on a train.
Rupert Thomson’s Never Anyone But You is a quiet, expert, and inestimably engaging novel.
De Stefano tracks the evolution of a cabinet-maker’s daughter into a famously bombastic, chain-smoking political reporter and author.
Evidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.
George Prochnik’s biography of Gershom Scholem is flawed, but well worth reading, especially for those struggling with their Jewish and Israeli identities.
A beautiful, if somewhat meandering, series of vignettes on the writer’s lifelong relationship with cigarettes.
Anybody who has the good sense to pick up a copy of this book will find it instantly fascinating.
Yasmina Reza’s dollhouse of a novel is a miniaturist’s miracle.
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