Georges Perec
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Can a list of someone’s stuff double as literature?
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- July 19, 2018, 06:30
For three years, the French writer Thomas Clerc cloistered himself in his 50sq m Parisian apartment, compiling an annotation of his possessions, inclu(...)

1914 by Jean Echenoz review: epic telling of the horrors of the Great War
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- June 28, 2016, 20:00
Friday, July 1st, is the centenary of the opening offensive of the Battle of the Somme, one of the most harrowing events in human history. The German (...)

Apprehension as Harper Lee looks to follow up on perfection
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- February 3, 2015, 21:38
There is something alluring about perfection; it is so rare that most people would understand the feeling of wanting to keep it that way. An initial r(...)

Brought to Book: Anakana Schofield on parallel reading, the literary patriarchy and books as portals
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- May 19, 2014, 01:00
Anakana Schofield is the author of the award-winng debut novel, Malarky, which is out now in paperback, a funny and moving tale of sexual shenaniga(...)

The art of writing about everything and nothing
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- April 26, 2014, 01:00
Paul Chowder gets by. He is a poet who has lost interest in writing poems and would rather spend his days making music. About to turn 55, he se(...)