The Last of the Great English Adventurers

Patrick Leigh Fermor's The Broken Road

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Samuel Beckett, the Early Years

A lost story shows the young writer struggling in Joyce's shadow

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The Big Dig

Steven Moore's The Novel: An Alternative History (1600-1800)

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Debts

In Peter Stamm's World, We All Have Them

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A March to the Grave

Joseph Roth and the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

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Back in Time

Julian Barnes asks: How much of what we think makes us special is only a trick of memory?

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Priest, Gangster, Drinker, Gent

Reading Flann in the birthplace of psychoanalysis.

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Seriously Funny

On Howard Jacobson, the Jewish Jane Austen.

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Suppose You’re an Idiot

Mark Twain tells his own story.

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Man of Principle

The Passions of Arthur Koestler.

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Desperately Seeking Sam

Remembering Beckett twenty years after his death.

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Fateful Gates

The lives of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

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Intimate Revenge: Writing the Troubles

The Big Man of Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley, has died.

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We Laughed, We Cried

Flann O’Brien’s triumph.

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The Monarch of All

The fantasy world of John Cowper Powys.

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Nabokov’s Gift

A writer's legacy.

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The Quiet Man

John McGahern’s Ireland.

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Ian McEwan’s Family Values

A once-in-a-generation writer.

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The Lost Ones

John Banville's existentialist novels.

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A Mostly Irish Farce

A farce is a powerful force

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Noir Voyager

Alan Furst’s glamorous, doomed world.

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Zeeland

Review: Hans Konig

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Writing in Exile

Forsaking domestic comforts, James Hamilton-Paterson explores his inner life and our human nature.

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Review: The Rights of Desire

By André Brink.

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