Tag: books
Little Women Was the Original Super-Franchise
From film and TV adaptations to fan-fic and merch, Louisa May Alcott’s beloved novel about the March sisters has always been big.
Incidental Inventions and 7 More Books I Can’t Get Out of My Head
If you are interested in the experience of having a drink with Elena Ferrante and listening to her muse on various subjects, here’s your answer.
The Best Overlooked Books of 2019
Lesser-noticed novels by Yoko Ogawa, Helen Phillips, and others were among the year’s greatest.
New book claims Albert Camus was murdered by the KGB
Study expands on archive finds revealed in 2011, and suggests that the French state may have abetted the 1960 car crash that killed himSixty years after the French Nobel laureate Albert Camus died in a car crash at the age of 46, a new book is arguing …
The 10 Best Books of 2019
From an experimental memoir of domestic abuse to the one that broke 10,000 brains.
Robert De Niro’s Deer Hunter archive – in pictures
The film caught the trauma of the Vietnam war. Forty years on, its star has opened his personal archive for a new book, One Shot: The Making of The Deer Hunter, offering a glimpse of never-before-seen material Continue reading…
Crime in Progress review – the secret history of the Trump-Russia investigation
Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch have written an insider account, with eye-popping anecdotes, of alleged collusion and the failure of the US media to expose itIn January 2017 a meeting took place in a deserted building in Foggy Bottom. It was conspirato…
Bad *** award twosome: prize goes to Didier Decoin and John Harvey
‘Britain’s most dreaded literary prize’ for bad *** in fiction awarded to the novels The Office of Gardens and Ponds and Pax‘Mouthful by mouthful’: the 2019 Bad *** award in quotesIn a year of two Booker prize winners and two Nobel laureates, the Bad s…
Eat rats and throw poo at the horizon: can Bear Grylls help me survive any disaster?
What could you **** and eat in Hyde Park? How do you fight off an angry dog? And how do you put a nosy journalist in his place? The SAS man turned TV star shows off his survival skillsI have been given a time and a place to rendezvous with the world-fa…