Ru 1st January 1970
Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby: in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow – of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy’s Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the...
Blogs in January 1970
American Pastoral 1st January 1970
In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified greatness that is an elegy for all the twentieth century’s promises of prosperity, civic order, and domestic bliss. Roth’s protagonist is Seymour ‘Swede’ Levov – a legendary high...
The Lost German Slave Girl 1st January 1970
It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally...
I heart New York 1st January 1970
It’s official. Angela Clarke is in love – with the most fabulous city in the world. Fleeing her cheating boyfriend and clutching little more than a crumpled bridesmaid dress, a pair of Louboutins and her passport, Angela jumps on...
A Freewheelin’ Time 1st January 1970
Greenwich Village in the explosive years of the bureoning music scene. Suze Rotolo discovers a like minded group and this is her story of the years she spent with Dylan.
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