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Andrey Kurkov – Grey Bees (2020)
JAN 2023I've spent a lot of time thinking about the subtleties of this war novel. The ways in which its writer, Andrey Kurkov, manages to convey the horror of living through a seemingly never-ending war by carefully lifting out its most minute details... Continue reading →
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I had this 832-page mammoth waiting on my bookshelf for two years, as there's something so very daunting about the prospect of diving into a biography of someone's life. Biographies can read like endless Wikipedia entries (the first that comes to mind is James Baldwin's, written by Bill V. Mullen; an eternal shame). Thankfully, the Pulitzer-winning Sontag: Her Life, written by Benjamin Moser, is a joy to read. Continue reading →