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Rage review: Richard Bachman’s pen name experiment
by Karl Coppackby Karl CoppackThere’s a school of thought that The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger’s classic tale of teenage angst, has the shortest of windows. …
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In autumn in 1930s Germany, the apples are about to be harvested, in town shifts are starting. But at Westhofen concentration camp, …
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So as we all know, this month is Nonfiction November, as well as being the month where the intrepid attempt to write …
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October is the UK’s Black History Month and this Homegoing review came about because of a serendipitous find at the library last …
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If you were captivated by the recent HBO series, Chernobyl, and especially the story of Lyudmila Ignatenko and her husband, Vasily, one …
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When Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015, the reports noted that English translations of her work were ‘sparse.’ Happily …
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There aren’t enough books out there like What About Reb, so be warned that when you finish reading it, you are likely …
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The film channel here in Japan likes to show things in sequence, so it was that I spent a recent winter’s evening …
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Sexy self-help I have always thought the term, ‘self-help’ in the book sections sounds dirty. A sub-genre of a kink in pornography. …

