30th March 2024
John Wyver writes: as usual, a selection of articles and audio that caught my attention this past week. The image above, which relates to my first choice, is a detail from Anatole Godet's photograph of"Portrait de Emile Zola" par
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29th December 2015
For the end of 2015, when this blog has been less than it should have been, and for the start of 2016, when I intend it to be more than it has been, we offer five short lists of five
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6th March 2014
I am reading a book that drips sex. Émile Zola's The Kill, in Brian Nelson's thrillingly good Oxford World's Classics translation, is one of the most sensuous, sexy books that I think I've ever read. This
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