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Have you ever wondered about music? Like, in general? Well, David Byrne’s got the answers.
“My inability to grasp or be grasped by the poem in Spanish so resembled my inability to grasp or be grasped by the poem in English that I felt, in this respect, like a native speaker.”
Blind Man’s Bluff measures no more than 60 pages, many of which are filled with old photographs, collages and scribbled portraits.
Inspiring ideas for turning cities from gritty to nifty.
A novel held together by the internal strength of its own style.
Not saying much.
In his preface to this, the second volume of Susan Sontag’s diaries, David Rieff ventures to describe what is to follow as ‘the great autobiographical novel she never cared to write’. In doing so, he renews his mother’s own misguided insistence that she was a novelist first and foremost. If read more…
A subtly-told lament for the death of literature
My first ABC.
Of Modest Mouse and Men.
A distinctly modern novel about an unnamed American narrator walking around an unnamed eastern European city in search of a place to live.
Literary criticism at its finest in Tóibín’s return to non-fiction.
