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Books & arts
Consequences
Richard Johnstone
2 December 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Janet Lewis’s
The Trial of Sören Qvist
Books & arts
More necessary than life
Richard Johnstone
21 October 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Ella K. Maillart’s account of a remarkable prewar journey across Europe and into Asia
Books & arts
A premonition of bloodshed
Richard Johnstone
25 September 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Muriel Spark’s
The Mandelbaum Gate
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The sublime symmetry of double-entry bookkeeping
Richard Johnstone
18 August 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews B.S. Johnson’s
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry
Books & arts
A table, a fruit bowl and one shrivelled apple
Richard Johnstone
14 July 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Mark McShane’s
Séance on a Wet Afternoon
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The best non-famous writer of his generation
Richard Johnstone
7 June 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Norman Lewis’s memoir of life in a small Spanish village in the late 1940s and early 50s
Books & arts
The go-between
Richard Johnstone
9 May 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Michael Jenkins’s
A House in Flanders
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Tears before bedtime
Richard Johnstone
3 April 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Richard Hughes’s
The Fox in the Attic
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The youngish one
Richard Johnstone
6 March 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Doris Lessing’s
The Good Terrorist
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Cerebral desire
Richard Johnstone
7 February 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews a new translation of André Maurois’s
Climates
Books & arts
What’s in a name?
Richard Johnstone
12 January 2013
Richard Johnstone
reviews Shiva Naipaul’s
The Chip-Chip Gatherers
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In Hollywood with Christopher Isherwood
Richard Johnstone
11 December 2012
Richard Johnstone
reviews the newly reissued
Prater Violet
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Twin virtues
Richard Johnstone
4 November 2012
A new “designer classic” argues for pressing on and letting go, writes
Richard Johnstone
Books & arts
Scandinavian noir
Richard Johnstone
2 October 2012
Richard Johnstone
on Scandinavia’s most influential crime writers
Books & arts
Up-to-date with a vengeance
Richard Johnstone
5 September 2012
Richard Johnstone
’s paperback of the month, Bram Stoker’s thoroughly modern
Dracula
Books & arts
Another universe
Richard Johnstone
3 August 2012
Richard Johnstone
reviews Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s
Ambiguous Adventure
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Landscape with figures
Richard Johnstone
4 July 2012
Richard Johnstone
reviews William Maxwell’s
The Château
Books & arts
An outsider at war
Richard Johnstone
4 June 2012
Richard Johnstone
reviews Frederic Manning’s extraordinary account of the foot soldiers of the first world war
Books & arts
Simenon’s cool humanity
Richard Johnstone
3 May 2012
Richard Johnstone
reviews a new edition of a classic novel
Books & arts
Cover stories
Richard Johnstone
4 April 2012
Richard Johnstone
on Picador’s reissue of
White Noise
, and its fortieth anniversary cover design
Books & arts
How it went with the whale
Richard Johnstone
1 February 2012
Richard Johnstone
reviews Matías Néspolo’s
Seven Ways to Kill a Cat
Books & arts
Real-life melodrama
Richard Johnstone
12 January 2012
Richard Johnstone
’s paperback of the month,
Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s
Books & arts
The real thing
Richard Johnstone
2 December 2011
Richard Johnstone
’s paperback of the month,
The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages
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Hanging by a thread
Richard Johnstone
1 November 2011
Richard Johnstone
’s paperback of the month,
I Curse the River of Time