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Best Book of 1990: Anecdotes of Modern Art
Natalie Shapero
‘If I tell you a book is an encyclopedic and fast-paced tour of the interrelationship of making art and being in pain, need I say more?’
Best book of 1936: Locos
Ingrid Persaud
Ingrid Persaud on why Felipe Alfau’s Locos is the best book of 1936.
Best Book of 1969: Pricksongs & Descants
Lisa Taddeo
Lisa Taddeo on why Robert Coover’s Pricksongs & Descants is the best book of 1969.
Mountains Don’t Know Borders
Lois Parshley
‘In the Balkans, the present is often perched precariously on top of the past.’
Letter to Razan Zaitouneh
Kamila Shamsie
PEN International’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer – we stand in solidarity with writers who have suffered persecution exercising their freedom of expression.
Ten Books that Changed the World
Martin Puchner
Martin Puchner on ten books that have changed the course of world history.
Mangilaluk’s Highway
Nadim Roberts
‘They joked about how tough they’d be by the time they got home.’
The Book Tree
Larry Tremblay
‘I dreamed of dictionaries. I crammed myself with liquorice, honeymoons, caramels.’
L’Arbre aux livres
Larry Tremblay
En ce temps si proche, Dieu était partout et personne ne pouvait l’assassiner.
Getting Away With It
Timothy Phillips
A case of Russian espionage from Tim Phillips' book The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians, and the Jazz Age.
Desire | State of Mind
Andrea Stuart
‘My burgeoning sense of my own attractiveness, so fragile and recently developed, withered in this less than fertile ground.’