Inspiring Older Readers
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Kafka Was the Rage posted on 03 Apr 2016
I think I discovered Anatole Broyard’s Kafka Was the Rage as a consequence of reading Philip Roth’s The Human Stain.
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My Salinger Year posted on 03 Apr 2016
I've developed a completely jaundiced and probably largely unfair impression that the world of publishing relies on...
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Rare Books Uncovered : True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places posted on 01 Apr 2016
I suspect that every book collector, whatever it is they collect, dreams of the perfect find
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The Machine Stops posted on 31 Mar 2016
It would be tempting to read this short story ( it's only around 12,000 words long) as in some way prophetic
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Coprophilia or A Peck of Dirt posted on 26 Mar 2016
Spend an evening watching commercial television and the advertisements will most certainly convince you that we are in a war
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The Year of the Runaways posted on 25 Mar 2016
Towards the end of this beautifully written but sometimes harrowing story, Narinder who is the main female character reflects, 'Who would be a man'?
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The Library At Night posted on 24 Mar 2016
Every discipline needs it’s public intellectual – someone to articulate their cause and to make the difficult simple
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The Outsider posted on 21 Mar 2016
Colin Wilson died at the age of 82 in 2013 and although he went to his grave believing that he was "the major literary genius of our century"
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Wildwood posted on 18 Mar 2016
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn, reads Roger Deakin’s superlative Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees,
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth posted on 16 Mar 2016
In Germany, Professor Lidenbrock has developed an obsession – he wants to follow in the footsteps of the Icelander, Arne Saknussenum