John Dos Passos

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Michael Ondaatje: his novel unfolds in prose of breathtaking lyric and muscular beauty. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
The English Patient review: Love and loss in the desert fires

Four damaged people battle to make sense of the past and the present in Michael Ondaatje’s magnificent mystery romance The English Patient. Set in no(...)

Marlon James: has become the first Jamaican writer to carry off the award – with his third work. Photograph: PA
Booker winner Marlon James tops Tarantino for body count

There is nothing brief about this year’s winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction; nor is there the death count anywhere as low as the title suggest(...)

Maylis de Kerangal. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images
If you build it, they will come for their cut: Birth of a Bridge, by Maylis de Kerangal

It seems so simple, the building of a bridge. Part work of art, part sublime feat of engineering, it is practical and yet it is also symbolic. John J(...)

Ernest Hemingway on the cover of Picture Post in 1954. Photograph: Earl Theisen/Picture Post/IPC/Getty
The camera sometimes lies: making myths through a lens

RAISING THE FLAG: SPOILS OF WARHistory decomposes into images, not into narratives. Walter BenjaminA Soviet soldier raises the red flag on the roof of(...)

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer
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  • July 6, 2013, 01:00

‘For most of the twentieth century in America, things worked about as well as they ever had in human history.” Who could disagree with this assessment(...)