Posts tagged ‘Walter Benjamin’
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LIVES
Milan Kundera's Laughter (Obituary) - Guardian Bill Douglas Among the Philistines - Cineaste Sontag's Distinction - TLS Brixton, 1981: The Ritzy, the riots and the rest - Brixton Review of Books James Agee at the Dangerous Edge - Guardian Nobody Knows My Name: Flann O'Brien's Life and Letters - TLS Mother Goddam: Bette Davis Centenary - Guardian Nawal El Saadawi, Writing and Fighting - TLS Christa Wolf: An Exemplary Life (Obituary) - Guardian Nell Dunn, Talking to Women - TLS Luise Rainer, for your consideration - Al Jazeera Eleanor Marx's Lessons from History - Guernica Matthew De Abaitua, Self & I - TLS Lorna Sage's Authority - Times Higher Education Supplement Sagan, Paris 1954 - TLS George Price and the Search for the Origins of Human Kindness - Camden New Journal Dame Beryl of Camden Town J.G.Ballard: The Bard of Shepperton-
Lorna Sage
REVIEWS: FICTION IN ENGLISH
Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood, Penguin Books - TLS Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho, Galley Beggars - Brixton Review of Books Maggie Gee, The White Family and The Red Children, Telegram Books - Literary Review Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study. Saraband - TLS Nadifa Mohamed, The Fortune Men. Viking - TLS Jonathan Coe, Mr Wilder & Me. Viking - TLS Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body. Faber; Irene Sabatini, Act of Defiance. The Indigo Press – TLS John Keene, Counternarratives. Fitzcarraldo - TLS Ali Smith, How To Be Both. Hamish Hamilton - TLS Jonathan Lethem, Dissident Gardens. Doubleday - TLS Janet Frame, Towards Another Summer. Virago - TLS Joy Williams, The Visiting Privilege. Tuskar Rock; Ninety-Nine Stories of God. Tin House - TLS Sean O'Brien, Once Again Assembled Here. Picador - Spectator Jonathan Coe, Number 11, Viking - TLS Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief. Faber - TLS Kate Atkinson, Transcription. Doubleday - Spectator Amit Chaudhuri, Friend of My Youth. Faber - TLS Aminatta Forna, Happiness. Bloomsbury - Spectator Aidan Higgins, Langrishe, Go Down. Apollo; March Hares. Dalkey Archive Press - TLS Jeet Thayil, The Book of Chocolate Saints. Faber - TLS Rachel Cusk, Transit. Jonathan Cape - Spectator Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing. Bloomsbury Circle - TLS Neel Mukherjee, A State of Freedom. Chatto - Spectator Whitney Terrell, The Good Lieutenant. Picador; Brian Van Reet, Spoils. Jonathan Cape; Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing. Knopf - TLS Ali Smith, Autumn. Hamish Hamilton - Spectator Dave Eggers, Heroes of the Frontier. Knopf; Sara Taylor, The Lauras. Hogarth Press; Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone. Hamish Hamilton - TLS Patrick Flanery, I Am No One. Atlantic Books - Spectator Claire Vaye Watkins, Gold, Fame Citrus. Riverhead Books; Mireille Juchau, The World Without Us. Bloomsbury - TLS Rupert Thomson, Katherine Carlyle. Corsair - Spectator Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life. Picador - Spectator Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers. Harvill Secker - TLS Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations. Faber - TLS Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests. Virago - TLS Helen Oyeyemi, Boy, Snow, Bird. Picador - TLS Dave Eggers, The Circle. Knopf - TLS Anakana Schofield, Malarky. One World Publications - Camden New Journal Mina Loy, Insel. Melville House - TLS Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries. Granta Books - TLS Parker Bilal (Jamal Mahjoub), The Makana Mysteries: The Golden Scales; Dogstar Rising. Bloomsbury Publishing - Camden New Journal Zadie Smith, NW. Hamish Hamilton - TLS Gwendoline Riley, Opposed Positions. Jonathan Cape - TLS Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog. Doubleday - TLS Jon McGregor, Even the Dogs. Bloomsbury Publishing - TLS
Zadie Smith
REVIEWS: FICTION IN TRANSLATION
Noémi Lefebvre, Poetics of Work (translated by Sophie Lewis). Les Fugitives - TLS Annie Ernaux, The Years (translated by Alison L Strayer); Happening (translated by Tanya Leslie), Fitzcarraldo - TLS Jenny Erpenbeck, Go Went Gone (translated by Susan Bernofsky). Portobello - Spectator Boualem Sansal, 2084: The End of the World (translated by Alison Anderson). Europa Editions - TLS Hélène Cixous, Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Time: 1. Los, A Chapter; Death Shall be Dethroned: Los, A Chapter, The Journal (translated by Beverly Bie Brahic). Polity – TLS Han Kang, Human Acts (translated by Deborah Smith). Portobello - TLS Per Olov Enquist, The Wandering Pine: Life as a Novel (translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner). MacLehose Press - TLS Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Man In Love: My Struggle Volume 2 (translated by Don Bartlett). Harvill Secker - TLS Viola Di Grado, 70% Acrylic, 30% Wool (translated by Michael Reynolds). Europa Editions - TLS Irène Némirovsky, The Wine of Solitude (translated by Sandra Smith). Chatto & Windus - TLS Milos Tsernianski, Migrations (translated by Michael Henry Heim). Harper Collins - Guardian
Irène Némirovsky
REVIEWS: NON-FICTION
Olivia Laing, Everybody: A Book About Freedom. Picador; Jacqueline Rose, On Violence and On Violence Against Women. Faber - TLS Paul Mason, Why it's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions - Red Pepper Suggs, Suggs and the City; Marcus Gray, Route 19: The Clash and London Calling - Guardian McKenzie Wark, The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International - Camden New Journal José Pierre, editor, Investigating Sex: Surrealist Discussions 1928-32 - Camden New Journal Harvey O'Connor, Revolution in Seattle: A Memoir - Tribune Sheila Rowbotham, Dreamers of a New Day - Camden New Journal Julian Barnes, Through the Window: Seventeen Essays and One Short Story - TLS J. M. Coetzee, Late Essays 2006 - 20017 - TLS Gretchen Schultz, Sapphic Fathers: Discourses of Same Sex Desire from Nineteenth Century France - TLS
INTERVIEWS
Angela Carter Interview: "Alienation isn't necessarily a bad thing" - TLS Daljit Nagra Interview: Nagra Makes His Mark - Camden New Journal Paul Mason Interview Pt 1: Neutral Voice, Soul Brother - British Journalism Review Paul Mason Interview Pt 2: Downturns and Uprisings Sheila Rowbotham Interview: Home Economics - The Third Estate Jamal Mahjoub Interview: AKA Parker Bilal - Al Jazeera McKenzie Wark Interview: People Who Specialise in Not Working John Lanchester Interview: The Cost of the Cab - Camden New Journal Michael Ondaatje Interview: On Writing and Emotion Gang of Four Interview - TempoRARy Hoarding
ESSAYS & REPORTS
'Songs of Freedom', RAR Reminiscences, ed. by Roger Huddle and Red Saunders, Redwords, 2016 "Opening Up the Amusement Park": The Politics of Hollywood - Guernica A History of the Christmas Story: Not Altogether Christmas But Christmas All Together - Electric Literature Bahrain: Brute Force and Soft Power - Counterfire Democracy and Dissent: Tariq Ali at the Conway Hall - Camden New Journal
ANGELA CARTER
Angela Carter Interview: "Alienation isn't necessarily a bad thing" - TLS Angela Carter, Unicorn: The poetry of Angela Carter With an essay by Rosemary Hill; Christopher Frayling, Inside the Bloody Chamber: On Angela Carter, the Gothic, and other weird tales – TLS Angela Carter Podcast - TLS Angela Carter at the Movies - Daily Telegraph 'Seriously Funny: Angela Carter's Wise Children' - Virago 1992, 2007; Macmillan 2000, British Library 2016-
CHRISTINA STEAD AND THE POLITICS OF BOHEMIA
Christina Stead
CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ELEANOR MARX
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Eleanor Marx
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Anna North, Outlawed. Bloomsbury – TLS A. L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet - Spectator Nellie Hermann, The Season of Migration - TLS Will Eaves, This is Paradise - TLS Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds - TLS Tim Lott, Under the Same Stars - TLS Clare Morgan, A Book for All and None - TLS Polly Samson, Perfect Lives - TLS Helen Simpson, In-Flight Entertainment - TLS Storm Jameson, Love in Winter - TLS Victor Lodato, Mathilda Savitch - Observer Penelope Lively, Family Album - TLS Monica Ali, In the Kitchen - TLS Anita Brookner, Strangers - TLS Laura Beatty, Pollard - TLS Deirdre Madden, Molly Fox's Birthday - TLS Joan Barfoot, Exit Lines - TLS Isabel Fonseca, ed, Soho Square - City Limits
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