Hints and tips:
...The latter is an explicit take on “The Lady Of Shalott”, the endless weaving of Tennyson’s protagonist here turned into a metaphor for female creativity....
...A list of 20 books you should read before you’re 30 contained no titles by women, but at least it contained Nick Hornby and Tom Wolfe. I felt embarrassed reading Loaded and FHM in a public place....
...Social Creature returns us to the New York of Cruel Intentions, where the bright young things live on the Upper East Side, know Tennyson and Shakespeare off by heart, and have very strong ideas about whom...
...As Lord Tennyson imagined of the river: “For men may come and men may go/ But I go on for ever”....
...The Death of Bunny Munro By Nick Cave Canongate, £16.99 A “rock novel you can hum along to” is how the FT described the second work of fiction by the Bad Seeds frontman Cave....
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