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Being-in-the-World
Geoff Dyer
‘Even experienced users get scared because it’s so far out.’
Geoff Dyer on ageing and understanding the self.
Beirut | Dispatches
Lana Asfour
‘I was determined that this latest crisis wouldn’t keep me out of the country of my birth.’
Benjamin Anastas | Portrait of My Father
Benjamin Anastas
‘For years when I was growing up, I passed underneath this double-nude every time I climbed up or down the stairs in my father’s house.’
Benjamin Pell Versus the Rest of the World
Tim Adams
‘You hear Benjamin Pell long before you see him.’
Best Book of 1886: The Masterpiece
Summer Brennan
‘Zola’s characters are, in every sense of the term, art monsters.’
Best Book of 1919: The Years Between by Rudyard Kipling
Robert Chandler
Robert Chandler on why The Years Between by Rudyard Kipling is the best book of 1919
Best Book of 1937: Busman’s Honeymoon
Caroline Crampton
Caroline Crampton on why Busman’s Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers is the best book of 1937.
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.’
Best Book of 1944: Transit
Lauren Aimee Curtis
Lauren Aimee Curtis on why Transit by Anna Seghers is the best book of 1944.
Best Book of 1946: The Years of Anger
Robert Chandler
Robert Chandler on why The Years of Anger by Randall Swingler is the best book of 1946.
Best Book of 1953/1994: Trans-Atlantyk
Jennifer Croft
‘The most Polish novel of the twentieth century was written in Argentina and published in France.’
Best Book of 1959: Mrs Bridge
Sindya Bhanoo
‘When the book was published, my own parents were children in India, then a newly independent nation.’
