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Reviewed: Stories I Forget to Tell You

Dorothy Gallagher recalls her years of marriage to the New York-born editor and translator Ben Sonnenberg (1936-2010) in this affecting but also humorous 88-page memoir.
Books • 11 Nov 20

Review: Diary of a Foreigner in Paris Curzio Malaparte

In 1947, on his return to Paris, capital of the country he was familiar with ever since his enlisting in the French Foreign Legion in 1915, the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte embarked on this mostly engaging, unfinished diary.
Culture • 25 Aug 20

Reviewed: The End of Me by Alfred Hayes

There is a touch of Albert Camus and existentialist gloom about Alfred Hayes' wistful, candid tale of despair, desire and manipulation played out in late 1960s New York.
Book Review • 26 Jun 20

Reviewed: São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos

Almost seventy years after his death, the works of Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953) are hugely popular in his native Brazil and São Bernardo shows an intuitive understanding of rural society in the country's North-East in the 1930s, based on life experience.
Books • 06 Jun 20

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