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Andrew Anthony

The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon - review

Aleksandar Hemon's autobiographical essays address often tragic events with power and precision Such is Aleksandar Hemon 's bountiful gift for language that the Bosnian-American writer has drawn comparison with Nabokov, that genius of word selection. Bo

The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood - review

The great literary critic James Wood turns his stern gaze on the likes of Paul Auster, Richard Yates and WG Sebald in a fascinating collection of essays If literary criticism no longer enjoys the privileged cultural position it occupied in the middle of