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Best Book of 1971: Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
Kevin Breathnach
‘The novel submits to an internalized discipline: it is an observation machine’
Best Book of 1943: Love In A Fallen City by Eileen Chang
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
‘Eileen Chang writes perfectly for the romantic in an unromantic and unrelenting world.’
The Politics of English Forgetfulness
Madeleine Bunting
‘Brexit demonstrates one of England’s most trusted strategies of power: deliberate forgetfulness.’
Black Country
Anthony Cartwright
‘There’s a sense, I think, that what that X in the box translates as is seventeen and a half million voices that say, we’re still here.’
The Decay of Politics
Philip Ó Ceallaigh
‘Britain has made the control of borders and the free movement of people its central obsession, its fundamental national anxiety.’ Philip Ó Ceallaigh on Brexit.
Bucharest, Broken City
Philip Ó Ceallaigh
‘It is only consciousness and memory that hold together the things we sometimes see as solid.’
Best Book of 1982: Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Eleanor Chandler
‘While the terrible pain of speech is made clear, this book ultimately reminds us that we must not be silenced.’
Diary of a Gulag Prison Guard
Ivan Chistyakov
‘Freedom, even with hunger and cold, is still precious and irreplaceable.’
Five Things Right Now: Diane Cook
Diane Cook
Diane Cook shares five things she’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.
Coventry
Rachel Cusk
‘War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself.’