Book Review: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
Brick Lane is the debut novel of Monica Ali, one of a growing number of British novelists from immigrant backgrounds who are coming of age as writers. It is against an immigrant background that Ali...
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Before delving into Slaughterhouse-Five I think it’s worth lingering on the book’s title page for a while, because it reveals an awful lot of what the book is about. Title: Slaughterhouse-Five / or The...
View ArticleEssay: In Praise of Harold Bloom
I have never met Harold Bloom in person and I never will. Given his advanced age and the unlikelihood of my making a pilgrimage to his door I accept I can only know of him what I read. A friend met...
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