The Bulgarian Booker winner on the letter he wrote to JD Salinger, the allure of Homer’s Odyssey and the magic of Thomas Mann
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The Master of Contradictions by Morten Høi Jensen review – how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
A vivid account of the creation of one of literary modernism’s greatest achievements
In a 1924 letter to André Gide, Thomas Mann said he would soon be sending along a copy of his new novel, The Magic …
5 months ago
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…
Disgraced chiropractor gets life sentence for trying to murder wife with lead-lined vitamins so he could claim $1m life insurance ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Brian Thomas Mann, a 36-year-old chiropractor from Alabama, tried to slowly kill his wife Hannah, 26, with vitamins laced with lead.
8 months ago
It Used to Be Witches by Ryan Gilbey review – an idiosyncratic guide to queer cinema ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
This engaging and experimental book explores the complex politics of LGBTQ+ representation in film
For the British film critic Ryan Gilbey, “cinema and sexuality have always been as closely intertwine…
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