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A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen: a hard search for a new self
Nora Helmer starts out as a perfectly compliant wife and mother in this 1879 drama, but a life-threatening ordeal drives her to break out of convention

WB Gooderham

11, Jan, 2017 @10:00 AM

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Books to give you hope: Prick Up Your Ears by John Lahr
Despite Joe Orton’s tragic end, this expert telling of his defiant struggle from obscure beginnings to scandalous success remains inspiring

WB Gooderham

22, Aug, 2016 @8:00 AM

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Wise Children by Angela Carter – vibrant, bawdy, life-affirming
This fictionalised showbiz memoir contains all the juicy Shakespearean tropes of ambition, greed and revenge, expressed with a breathtaking lyricism

WB Gooderham

11, Jan, 2016 @3:24 PM

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The Swimmer by John Cheever – into a suburban darkness
This classic tale has echoes of many other great stories, but stands on its own as a portrait of a disintegrating man

WB Gooderham

31, Aug, 2015 @10:49 AM

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Kafka's Metamorphosis and its mutations in translation
Kafka’s haunting story is a century old this year. Numerous translations have re-shaped it into English, but which is the most successful?

WB Gooderham

13, May, 2015 @1:03 PM

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Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story by Victor Bockris – review
A gushing second edition of Bockris’s biography that is nevertheless an engrossing read

WB Gooderham

20, Mar, 2015 @4:30 PM

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Baddies in books: Alex from A Clockwork Orange
From Charles Dickens to Stephen King, fiction offers plenty of troubled children – but Anthony Burgess’s teenage narrator is in a league of his own

WB Gooderham

03, Feb, 2015 @4:40 PM

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The Peculiar Life of the Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault – review

There is a charming playfulness to Thériault's prose in this well-executed story of love found through letters and deception, writes WB Gooderham

WB Gooderham

17, Oct, 2014 @3:00 PM

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Setting the record straight – music memoirs
From Morrissey to Marr, Hook to Sumner, musicians are falling over themselves to give us their side of the story – but are any of them worth reading, asks WB Gooderham

WB Gooderham

30, Sep, 2014 @7:30 AM

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Time Out of Mind: the Lives of Bob Dylan review – an essential addition

The concluding part of Ian Bell's epic Dylan biography proves there was fascinating incident well beyond Blood on the Tracks, writes WB Gooderham

WB Gooderham

03, Aug, 2014 @11:30 AM

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The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction – review

These stories provide fascinating snapshots of a culture at a time of crisis and a welcome reminder of the universality of human relations, writes WB Gooderham

WB Gooderham

01, Aug, 2014 @3:30 PM

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Morphologies: Short Story Writers on Short Story Writers – review
You get two writers' work for the price of one in these fine essays on the art of the short story, writes WB Gooderham

WB Gooderham

04, Jul, 2014 @5:39 PM

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