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September 23, 2024As in Sally Rooney’s previous novels, the main characters in Intermezzo fall in love quickly, tidily and passionately. They meet, their outfits are described, they exchange...
July 26, 2024What does it mean to want children? I think, often, of a strange conversation I had with a friend I had known for many years. In her early twenties she began dating a man...
April 10, 2024“LITERARY CRITICS do fulfill a very important role, but there seems to be a problem with much contemporary criticism,” Simon Leys once wrote. “One has the...
