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“... with realism makes it too easy for readers to distance themselves from the novel’s urgency. Sally Carson’s Crooked Cross (1934) was among the earlier responses to the menace of fascism, and the novel anticipates many of the preoccupations of Manja. Like Gmeyner, Carson insists that recognising the subjugation ...”

“... and that hollow muscly facade were also making much the same point – so Cadmus is Sir Edward Carson raising his bronze fist against the twisty tail of Home Rule – a theatrical gesture he copied from James Larkin who raised the dragon people against their bosses but let’s say instead that Cadmus is Willie Whitelaw sitting at a bootshaped table with ...”

“... novel, ‘Tangier’ (first line: ‘Autumn came later that year to the rif of the Low Atlas, and Carson was having an embarrassing time staying publicly sober’), wrote some magazine pieces, accepted a job as a sportswriter, broke the news to X, who ‘thought it all sounded just fine’, and settled down to raise a family. Ralph (b. 1970) was followed by ...”

“... on The Great Sinner (a Dostoevsky biopic), a vehicle for Shirley Temple, and a treatment of Carson McCullers’s Reflections in a Golden Eye which John Huston elected not to use. Shortly after arriving in Los Angeles, he was converted to Vedanta by Swami Prabhavananda, a Hollywood holy man. He was a fervent believer (‘How he does go on about ...”

“... black and white photographs complete Long’s obsessional ritual. Near my home in Cumbria, Sally Matthews has worked very differently. In A Cry in the Wilderness (1990), two hounds jump over a ragged drystone wall in the permanent twilight of Grizedale Forest. Their colours are rendered in the black of peaty mud, the bronze of stripped ...”

“... until the summer of 1952, shortly after the publication of her first novel, Wise Blood. Her friend Sally Fitzgerald, the wife of the poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald, broke the news, which effectively terminated all dreams of escaping Andalusia, the farm outside Milledgeville run by her mother. There O’Connor spent the last 12 years of her life, raising ...”

“... and makes corporate power look progressive (think Leo Varadkar). With normativity being so bad, Sally Rooney’s Normal People is asking for, and gets, a kicking.It is not that empire and colonialism are written out of the account, but the story has shifted from the binary of Britain and Ireland. Roberts’s account of Swift’s use of the ‘black ...”