Cabbie Monaco
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Monday, 28 February 2022
A teenage boy with raging hormones
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Charles Highway is a " chinless elitist and bratty whey-faced lordling ". He's the protagonist of Martin Amis's The Rache...
Thursday, 24 February 2022
Antigone, Iphis, Electra and more
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It was eighteen months after reading a review of Antigone Rising before I bought it. I'd forgotten what had drawn my attention to the ...
Friday, 11 February 2022
Living through a period when politicians don’t merely lie
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When Boris Yeltsin became President of the new Russia, I was working for a bunch of London-based management consultants who were looking f...
Monday, 7 February 2022
A cock that could drill a hole through stone?
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Beautiful Antonio ticked a lot of my boxes. It's set between WW1 and WW2, with themes including fascism, hypocrisy, and gender inequa...
Monday, 17 January 2022
Our pockets not picked in Paris
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This is a true story. The events described took place in Paris in 2018 and are narrated by The Man. Sometimes he thinks he's in a Philip...
My lack of imagination?
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This is a review of the first 13% of Harmless Like You . Perhaps it's a good story. It was in a list of books I'd found on the the...
Saturday, 8 January 2022
Do I like this?
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Art Objects is a book for readers who relish language, its rhythm and its sounds. In other words, the art of the written word. In it Jean...
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