From Jacqueline Rose to Kira Yarmysh: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Encounterism by Andy Field and Art Firsts by Nick Trend.
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The Jewish vaccine pioneer forgotten by history
Simon Schama wants the post-pandemic world to learn from the case of Waldemar Haffkine: a tragic story of how prejudice…
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The cult of David Keenan
How the Scottish author drew on music, drugs and violence to lead a new working-class avant-garde
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How to survive a nuclear holocaust
A luxury hotel protects the affluent in Sven Holm’s Termush, a rediscovered 1967 dystopia that sheds light on our own…
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How Michel Houellebecq diminished himself
Full of explicit depictions of bizarre, humiliating events, the French novelist’s new memoir reads like the ramblings of a buffoon.
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JB Priestley’s rules for life
Stay away from the crowd, the mob and the mass.
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A life in books and why prizes matter
Also this week: the art of rejecting authors and how all the best stories are true.
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Deborah Levy’s double lives
At the heart of her new novel August Blue is the question: where does one self begin and another end?
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