Hanif Kureishi in 1999. (Jonathan Player for The New York Times) A quick hike through the Sunday (and a few non-Sunday) book review sections. The Guardian Adam Mars-Jones calls "Something to Tell You" an old-school Hanif Kureishi novel: If Hanif Kureishi's new novel has a fault, it is that its...
Hanif Kureishi's Something to Tell You, about a Freudian analyst struggling with a guilty secret, sees him back at his very best, says Adam Mars-Jones ... Sunday February 24, 2008 The Observer Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi If Hanif Kureishi's new novel has a...
JACKIE McGLONE discovers why the first novel from Junot Díaz has taken America by storm. ... JACKIE McGLONE discovers why the first novel from Junot DÃaz has taken America by storm. "So, Junot Diaz, How Does It Feel to Be a Literary Sensation?" asked a headline in the...
More than 200 artistic delights are on offer at this year's Brighton Festival, which runs from May 3 to 25. ... Theatre A nightclub in West Street, a disused pizza parlour and a graveyard are among the unusual venues this year. Among the most promising is Happy Together,...
Like Our Friends in the North, Boys from the Blackstuff and the first series of Shameless, The Buddha of Suburbia was on ... ... was one of those landmark TV shows that everyone but everyone had an opinion on at the time – and, curiously enough, in the wake of the...
Last week I read... ... About Comrade Duch in The Independent. His full name was Kang Kek Leu and he was second in command to Pol Pot in Cambodia and the first of his men to be put on trial for genocide. I went to Vietnam and Cambodia recently and visited S-21, a prison...
Freud's insights are everywhere in 20th-century literature. But, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Roth, psychoanalysts have been given short shrift in fiction, lacking the inner life that is their trade. Is this about to change, asks Lisa Appignanesi ... All in the mind...