The TLS Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

The TLS

'These novels are so deeply engaged with the rest of his corpus that they represent something like a steadily accumulated stack of postcards kept in the glovebox: a reminder of places seen, stories exchanged; friends met, friends lost.' https://t.co/cRb9KZoXxU

The TLS

'A dirty, divided, crime-ridden 1960s New York ready to explode in the summer heat; street kids playing in the spray from uncapped fire hydrants; a dandyish stick-up artist partial to hats and purple suits' (@natsegnit) https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/harlem-shuffle-colson-whitehead-book-review-nat-segnit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1632328474

The TLS

'The secrets and lies of family life ... provided an impetus for several of Arthur’s plays: prolonged and bitter reminiscences that, in a series of delayed confrontations, drag into the light truths hidden within a tangle of threats and accusations.' https://t.co/vFdQA6wx9M

The TLS

'Many of the novel’s chapter titles are direct references to exemplars of the genre, such as 'The Crooked House' (Agatha Christie), 'The Lady in the Lake' (Raymond Chandler) and 'A Morbid Taste for Bones' (Ellis Peters).' https://t.co/JVrMfmYfVw

The TLS

'Back and forth we go between critic and film-maker. Shot-reverse-shot.' https://t.co/B3SzGebbqi

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'Although Rooney was “Greeted as the First Great Millennial Novelist”, with all that entailed, she never promised – nor even signalled – a revolution. In fact, her work, in all regards, can be understood as a capitulation' (@RozDineen) https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/beautiful-world-where-are-you-sally-rooney-book-review-rozalind-dineen/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1632928971

The TLS

'Keegan takes her time, and she uses her time well.' Damon Galgut reviews Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These https://t.co/il2KfydXxb

The TLS

From the TLS of April 22: @henryhitchings on The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the company that made the modern internet by Jimmy Soni https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-founders-peter-thiel-elon-musk-jimmy-soni-book-review-henry-hitchings/ https://t.co/CDUWl59oOP

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'It is wild youth, as wild as Hamlet’s, and full of wild music.' Arthur Clutton-Brock's review of James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, originally published in the TLS of March 1, 1917. https://t.co/oP8RVE7dFa

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‘Imagine Sally Rooney’s Normal People without the sex and you’ll have a good sense of the circumambulations. It might be an authentic representation of an unconsummated obsession, but 423 pages of it is … well, an awful lot of authenticity.’ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/either-or-elif-batuman-book-review-claire-lowdon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1653564847