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The Promise by Damon Galgut review – legacies of apartheid
The Booker-shortlisted novelist examines South Africa’s broken promises over the last three decades through the story of one white family
Jon Day
18, Jun, 2021 @8:00 AM
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell review – intimacy and distance
The follow-up to What Belongs to You explores love, anonymity and the dark side of sex in beautiful sentences, but veers into solipsism
Jon Day
15, May, 2020 @8:00 AM
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner review – in a class of its own
Psychoanalysis, rap battles, poetry, school debates: this bravura US autofiction explores language as tool and weapon
Jon Day
08, Nov, 2019 @9:00 AM
To Calais, in Ordinary Time, by James Meek review – a triumphant medieval fable
An unruly band of characters travel from England to France in this exuberant 14th-century tale with contemporary parallels
Jon Day
12, Sep, 2019 @6:29 AM
Home to roost: my life as a pigeon fancier
Bringing up his young family on the outskirts of the city, Jon Day rediscovers his old love of pigeons – and learns new lessons about love and life
Jon Day
02, Jun, 2019 @9:00 AM
Underground by Will Hunt review – the worlds beneath our feet
Parisian sewers, old gold mines and the Mole Man of Hackney in a thrilling celebration of the subterranean
Jon Day
08, Feb, 2019 @9:00 AM
Border Districts and Tamarisk Row by Gerald Murnane review – meditations on memory
A cult Australian author tipped for the Nobel prize explores the ways our minds and memories mediate the world
Jon Day
23, Jan, 2019 @7:30 AM
Ghost Trees by Bob Gilbert review – an urban botanical sleuth
After the environmentalist and writer moved to Poplar, east London, he set out to discover both the area’s natural diversity and where modern life goes wrong
Jon Day
10, Dec, 2018 @7:30 AM
On your bike: the best books about cycling
With the Tour de France in full swing, saddle up and check out the greatest books on two wheels
Jon Day
13, Jul, 2018 @5:30 AM
Is it a bird? Yes – 1,500 of them!
They swoop, they soar, they light up the sky … meet the pigeon-fancier who has trained his flock to wear LEDs and perform a hypnotic night dance
Jon Day
19, Jun, 2018 @5:00 AM
A New Map of Wonders by Caspar Henderson review – scientific approach akin to spiritual vision
A wunderkammer of amazing facts inspires a better appreciation of the world and celebrates the wonder and explanatory power of science
Jon Day
23, Dec, 2017 @7:30 AM
Dawn of the New Everything by Jaron Lanier review – virtual reality patter
The techno-sage and Silicon Valley insider sees VR as emancipatory and liberating but what does ‘shared lucid dreaming’ actually mean?
Jon Day
07, Dec, 2017 @12:00 PM
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