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Through the past, darkly — Dan Vyleta, The Quiet Twin (Interview)
Rear Window on the Ringstrasse, Nazi Austria ‘from the kitchen and the hallway’ makes for a paranoid, claustrophobic thriller. It’s also a thorough psychological examination of life in the terror state.
David Mitchell v. The Orcs of Infinity: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Interview)
Reading interviews David Mitchell has given over the years, there emerge at least three preoccupations he has with himself as [...]
Ages and stages — Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal (Interview)
The Rehearsal, which details the reverberations of a sex scandal at a girls’ school, was published in New Zealand, where [...]
Still life — Michael Winter, The Death of Donna Whalen (Interview)
Cinéma-vérité for the page, Winter’s latest returns to the grisly, real-life murder that enthralled him as a young man
Reflections on a literary mashup
Lessons learned with scissors and glue

