A cerebral and determined young woman at Harvard vigorously explores the gaps between life and art: an entertaining and lively sequel to Batuman's wonderful The Idiot.
A small boy in a big hat steers himself and three friends on the good ship Neversink in search of a land where children grow up immediately, cutting out any further need for school... By th... read more
The range of Blackburn's books testifies to her profound curiosity about the world. This account of her journey (imaginative as well as physical) among the little-known South African people ... read more
Quiet utterances like snatches of conversation, from the magnificent JB. These brief reflections and observations are not quite poetry, not quite prose - an absolute joy to read and to pause... read more
This delightful slim volume consists of Newcomb's watercolours of still lives around the house & garden, accompanied by a few lines from Blackburn, her indefatigable Suffolk neighbour.