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...as a plant that only consumes water and sunlight, ultimately becomes a radical act of renunciation of what is accepted as constituting a human being — a stance that’s violently opposed and considered a savage...
...Man Tiger: A Novel, by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Verso, RRP£9.99/$18.95 Man Tiger, winner of this year’s Financial Times/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award for Fiction, is a savage...
...The shortlist comprised two US authors (Mr Beatty and Ottessa Moshfegh for Eileen), two British authors (Graeme Macrae Burnet for His Bloody Project and Deborah Levy for Hot Milk), one Canadian (Madeleine...
...In her sixth novel, Hot Milk, Deborah Levy conveys an atmosphere of out-of-kilter surreality without ever violating the rules of realism....
...Beside Han is her 28-year-old translator, Deborah Smith, with whom she will share the £50,000 prize money....
...James Lovegrove Children’s The Girl of Ink and Stars, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Chicken House, RRP£6.99 The description “magical” is overused but genuinely applies to this book, a sweet and savage tale...
...“The biggest problem with the Royal Docks is that nobody really wants to go there,” says Deborah Armstrong, creative director of the London Pleasure Gardens....
...Deborah Moggach wrote the source novel about a group of British pensioners lured to India by advertisements for an idyllic retirement hotel. Old Raj palace done over – looks and sounds lovely....
...As you approach the auditorium for Deborah Warner’s new staging of The School for Scandal, you are greeted by pounding music and flashing lights....
...He savages the great gospel of John, reckoning it an irredeemably anti-Semitic tract in the original that has “alas” achieved prominence as “a major piece of world literature” through Tyndale’s too-effective...
...Swimming Home , by Deborah Levy, And Other Stories/Faber, RRP£7.99 A middle-class family’s summer retreat in the south of France is ripped apart when a young waif, Kitty, appears in their pool....
...24 Hour Party People, Control, the fine BBC4 documentary Factory: Manchester from Joy Division to Happy Mondays, and now the documentary bearing their name, a splendid film overseen and written by Jon Savage...
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