The Bulgarian Booker winner on the letter he wrote to JD Salinger, the allure of Homer’s Odyssey and the magic of Thomas Mann
My earliest reading memory
I was taught to read quite early, at five or s…
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Rumaan Alam: ‘Reading JD Salinger now is like running into that particular ex at a cafe’ ○
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The US author on his early love of Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, the genius of Judy Blume, and finding perfection in Agatha Christie and Gustave Flaubert
My earliest reading memory
I recall lying in…
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan review – behind the American dream ○
This luminous and tender 20th-century saga of wounded souls and small-town secrets has a deep melancholy
I am not the kind of reader who naturally gravitates toward slice-of-life Americana. I’m an ent…
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