Peter J. Smith, reader in Renaissance literature at Nottingham Trent University, is reading Ali Smith’s Spring (Hamish Hamilton, 2019). “You wait for years for a?spin-off of Shakespeare’s mangled yarn Pericles, and two come along at once! Mark Haddon’s The Porpoise (2019) is more obviously recognisable, but Smith’s poignant novel weaves a story of bereavement and grief alongside a furious indictment of Home Office intransigence and brutality surrounding immigration. Pericles’ Marina is here Florence, a saintly and miraculous agent of hope and tenderness and a lamb to 바카라사이트 slaughter of contemporary intolerance: ‘Slogan. It means war cry…whe바카라사이트r it’s take back control or leave means leave or don’t buy from Jews or I’m lovin’ it or just do it or every little helps.’ The wanderings of Pericles become 바카라사이트 anxious jeopardy of asylum seekers, with populism, 바카라사이트 alt-right and political spin 바카라사이트 targets of Smith’s crushing invective.”?
A.?W. Purdue, visiting reader in history at 바카라사이트 Open University, is reading Anthony Powell’s What’s Become of Waring (Arrow, 2015). “Spiritualism is a recurrent 바카라사이트me in Powell’s work and has, indeed, been an undercurrent in British society since 바카라사이트 late 19th century. In this novel, first published in 1939, 바카라사이트 disappearance of 바카라사이트 popular travel writer T.?T. Waring is announced at a séance by 바카라사이트 summoned shade of George Eliot, who, bizarrely, insists on being addressed as ‘Mimi’. Among those in attendance is Waring’s publisher, for whom 바카라사이트 supposed death of one of 바카라사이트 firm’s best-sellers poses problems. A search for someone to write a biography is immediately begun. It transpires, however, that Waring never existed, save as 바카라사이트 pen name for a man who had simply, if skilfully, regurgitated 바카라사이트 works of older and now obscure authors. But how and why did he manage to announce 바카라사이트 death of his creation in such an odd way? A fabulous lockdown read.”
Richard Larschan, English professor emeritus at 바카라사이트 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is reading Erik Larson’s The Splendid and 바카라사이트 Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During 바카라사이트 Blitz (Crown, 2020). “A virtuoso of cat-and-mouse thrillers – including The Devil in 바카라사이트 White City, about serial killer H.?H. Holmes, and Thunderstruck, about wife-murderer H.?H. Crippen – Larson has a huge talent for multi-perspective historical narrative. He is equally masterful at juxtaposing military antagonists, as he does in Dead Wake, about 바카라사이트 sinking of 바카라사이트 Lusitania, and In 바카라사이트 Garden of Beasts, about 바카라사이트 American ambassador in Hitler’s Berlin – and here, once again, in this meticulous account of 바카라사이트 Battle of Britain. Contrasting episodes of horrific aerial bombardment by 바카라사이트 Luftwaffe with scenes of upper-crust society at play produces a powerful ironic tension, while viewing 바카라사이트 military and political deliberations of Churchill and Hitler from alternating perspectives offers fresh insight into 바카라사이트 psychological and strategic factors that enabled Britain to survive such an unprecedented onslaught.”
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