Literary Radar
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The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2023 | LITERARY HUB | 11/12/2023
Parul Sehgal on James Ellroy, Merve Emre on Italo Calvino, Namwali Serpell on "hit me" Novels, and More.
‘A hero to millions’: Benjamin Zephaniah remembered by Michael Rosen, Kae Tempest and more | THE GUARDIAN | 08/12/2023
The acclaimed writer and poet for children and adults has died aged 65. Here, leading contemporaries pay tribute.
John Nichols, Author of ‘The Milagro Beanfield War,’ Dies at 83 | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 02/12/2023
After decamping from New York to New Mexico, he wrote what was, for a time, among the most widely read novels about Latinos.
The Revolutionary Temper by Robert Darnton review – a nation at breaking point | THE GUARDIAN | 22/11/2023
The intrigues and extravagance that led to the French revolution.
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week | LITERARY HUB | 17/11/2023
Michael Cunningham’s Day, Benjamin Taylor’s Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather, and Claire Keegan’s So Late in the Day all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week.
The Novelist Who Inspired Elena Ferrante | THE NEW YORKER | 08/11/2023
In the almost eight hundred pages that make up “Lies and Sorcery,” Elsa Morante wrote about women’s lives without apology or fear of ugliness.