From Ben Lerner to Simon Heffer: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang and Stay True by Hua Hsu.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
Also featuring Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang and Stay True by Hua Hsu.
ByA study of postwar British politics overstates the influence of its leading personalities.
ByThe songs he wrote with Elton John may be works of art. His bloated memoir is not.
ByHer prose is bare, her characters are depressed and alienated. This literary trend has coagulated into parody.
ByAlso featuring The View From Down Here by Lucy Webster and So To Speak by Terrance Hayes.
ByA daughter’s homage to the mother who had to negotiate family and the urge to activism.
ByHow did the TV presenter’s terminally twee stories of death and Waitrose become the bestselling novels in the UK?
ByA new book identifies the army of amateurs, eccentrics and criminals who created the Oxford English Dictionary.
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