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Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
On a gray Saturday morning in March of 1976, two nattily dressed London sophisticates left the city, driving west toward the decidedly unfashionable environs of rural Gloucestershire. One of the two was Eric Lister, owner of a quirky art gallery called the Portal. The other had a much higher profile. At age 42, Tom Maschler was already something of... See more
His gallantry reliably extends to whatever is disadvantaged, homely, long-suffering, foreign or feminine. Kind to stragglers and also-rans, to well-meaning duds and worthies, and correspondingly cautious in his praise of acknowledged stars and masters, Updike’s view of twentieth-century literature is a levelling one. Talent, like life, should be
... See moreMartin Amis • The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000 (Vintage International)
Killing Joke
Andrew O'Hagan • Mayflies: A MAJOR BBC DRAMA FOR CHRISTMAS 2022
Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.
Stephen King • It
rapacious
Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
the bookstore was inhuman.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Mark Fisher was possibly the last of a disappearing breed: the music critic as prophet.