Leo Robson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Leo Robson is a literary and cultural critic. journalist, culture and sport @guardian @newleftreview @nytimes @newyorker @bookforum @harpers @newstatesman et al More at Taproot: https://t.co/uC9irVAePZ
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott FitzgeraldLeo RobsonF Scott Fitzgerald's well-liked novel The Great Gatsby opens one hundred years ago today. (At the time, Fitzgerald himself thought the book was likely to be set in 1885.) A while back, I wrote this mildly divisive (ht @WhitStillman) piece for @NewStatesman https://t.co/VjSEiEwdgc
Paperback, 2004
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The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
Joan DidionLeo RobsonJoan Didion, reporter, essayist, novelist, one of the most distinguished writers in the world, author of Play it as it Lawys and The Year of Magical Thinking, has died aged 87. I wrote this for the @newstatesman earlier in the year about her life and work https://t.co/ScuReiGS6G
Paperback, 2007
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Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
Claire KeeganLeo RobsonHere’s @TheBookerPrizes 2022 shortlist: Glory, NoViolet Bulawayo The Trees, Percival Everett Treacle Walker, Alan Garner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan Oh William!, Elizabeth Strout
Hardcover, 2021
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Glory
Noviolet BulawayoLeo RobsonHere’s @TheBookerPrizes 2022 shortlist: Glory, NoViolet Bulawayo The Trees, Percival Everett Treacle Walker, Alan Garner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan Oh William!, Elizabeth Strout
Paperback, 2023
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Sentimental Education
Gustave FlaubertLeo RobsonGustave Flaubert, novelist and short story writer, turns 200 tomorrow. He changed the writing of prose, though what he represented is up for debate. I wrote this a bit ago for @NewStatesman about the author of Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education https://t.co/TtTANTuulf
Paperback, 2004
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyLeo RobsonHere is my @Telegraph review of the intriguing and vivid new Cormac McCarthy novel The Passenger, the first of a pair, about clever, depressed siblings, New Orleans and the Bomb. . . https://t.co/df90DEmVVv
Paperback, 2023
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Elia Kazan: A Life
Elia KazanLeo RobsonIs anyone really near a copy of Elia Kazan's A Life right now?
Paperback, 1997
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyLeo RobsonRoy Foster presumably the Yeats and Irish nationalism scholar doesn't think much of Sally Rooney's latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You... https://spectatorworld.com/book-and-art/sally-rooney-beautifil-world-hard-slog/
Paperback, 2022
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The Man Who Saw Everything
Deborah LevyLeo RobsonI tried to be the man who revealed nothing in this @NewStatesman @NS_Culture review of the very strange and sad and transfixing new Deborah Levy novel The Man Who Saw Everything (published by @HamishH1931 and nominated for the @TheBookerPrizes) https://t.co/CtUQGcfZqO
Paperback, 2020
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Ghost Wall
Sarah MossLeo Robsonbump again (ftwmi) for my @newyorker piece on the work of the Scotland-born English ex-academic and novelist Sarah Moss, author of "Cold Earth," a trio of loosely connected historical novels, "The Tidal Zone," "Ghost Wall," and most recently "Summerwater": https://t.co/1TrKN3GpBf
Paperback, 2019
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