Such a great biography. Why can’t they all be this good? observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Such a great biography. Why can’t they all be this good? observer.co.uk/culture/book...
“What a coarse, immoral, mean and senseless work Hamlet is.” - Tolstoy
No we’re aligned. Although I don’t find the print in mine too small. But jeez it’s hideous.
Do London people know about this on Thursday? Sounds amazing @chrispower.bsky.social
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Often distressingly in my sightline, that edition
Feel free to review me reviewing Emin/Sirāt/Bird Grove
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A couple of extracts from my @theobserveruk.bsky.social review of Eduardo Halfon’s excellent novel Tarantula. Modiano-heads take note. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
A couple of extracts from my @theobserveruk.bsky.social review of Eduardo Halfon’s excellent novel Tarantula. Modiano-heads take note. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
‘The novel denies us solution, catharsis and, for much of its length, comprehension. Yet this is what it must be like for Cristina Rivera Garza, to whom, I suspect, all crime novels are unjustifiably cosy.’
@chrispower.bsky.social reads ‘Death Takes Me’.
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‘He stirred himself to go later in August, but the painting sessions were held up initially by rain, then by a minor accident when Monet injured his leg protecting some children in the forest from a discus thrown by English tourists.’ I could do with a little more detail here.
‘His shoes and clothes wore thin; he was so tired that, strolling down the street smoking, he did not notice that he had set his jacket on fire with his pipe.’
‘Despite the conventional set-up, Cristina Rivera Garza isn’t interested in fulfilling the murder mystery contract. Satisfaction is antithetical to her aims. 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘔𝘦 is a book designed to withhold the pleasures of the genre.’
@chrispower.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘He stirred himself to go later in August, but the painting sessions were held up initially by rain, then by a minor accident when Monet injured his leg protecting some children in the forest from a discus thrown by English tourists.’ I could do with a little more detail here.
‘The novel denies us solution, catharsis and, for much of its length, comprehension. Yet this is what it must be like for Cristina Rivera Garza, to whom, I suspect, all crime novels are unjustifiably cosy.’
@chrispower.bsky.social reads ‘Death Takes Me’.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thanks Cory! I really enjoyed thinking and writing about the book. Reading it was another matter.
I’m in this week’s @lrb.co.uk writing about a novel I struggled through twice and am still in large part baffled by www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
"Manchette wastes none of his readers’ time, one short chapter after another driving the book relentlessly to its end."
@chrispower.bsky.social on Jean-Patrick Machette's Nada. If you like Manchette we recommend you check out Jean Echenoz.
Not a million miles off, Mr Dickens.
All anarcho-Marxist killer, no filler. A fantastic novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
I spent a couple of hours walking around the Prado with Mathias Énard observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Rosenberg, the son of Holocaust survivors, believed in the Zionist project until a visit to Israel in the late 1960s revealed “a land filled with violence, injustice, and hatred”. His book, & its account of how Israel’s apartheid system operates, is essential reading. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Haven’t got further than the font yet, but it looks/sounds great
Fonts in conversation. A new series (probably 1 of 1).
Brilliant work @ianleslie.bsky.social
Not just book but ‘*the* book’!
Maybe the greatest ever example of nominative determinism
You’ve reminded me that Harold Brodkey signed the contract for The Runaway Soul (1991) in 1961
Ha ha a better question
From the Sunday Times, Nov 8th 1987. What became of Motion’s ten-novel sequence?