One thing that doesn’t work in Sweden is the protection of government ministers.
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Gaby Ford can mock the bad old days, but only because she stuck to her guns.
Windhoek
A cocktail party is seeded with memories. And it has its own lyrics.
Spies and dolls
Suddenly it seemed women had ceased to exist. On the right was a sign warning how the penalty for drug-trafficking is death.
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"These are made in the Vatican by little nuns. They smell like roses and they won't lose their scent.” Little nuns?
Brett Shapiro
I was living with an Italian journalist. We met in the States when I was in New York and shortly afterwards we moved in together.
Roberta Garrison
“I was 39 years old and I wanted to search for my own stuff, collaborations with jazz musicians..."
Natalie Tsarkova
"You take a bit of the person’s soul and you put it on the canvas.”
Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem uses Tourette's Disease, Zen and shysters to craft an inimitable literary thriller.
The Effect of Living Backwards
Perhaps the most inventive of all post-9/11 novels. Julavits sinks her teeth into terrorists, conspiracies, and the illusions that sustain both.
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri's hews to the Anglo-Indian tradition of family storytelling and immigration in her first novel.