The TelegraphHolocaust How do you remember someone who has left no trace? The Telegraph - By Paul KendallEsther Safran Foer solves the family mysteries at the heart of her son’s novel in a superb memoir, I Want You to Know We’re Still Here, says Paul Kendall The joke in the title of Jonathan Safran Foer’s
The TelegraphWritingSomething That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg review: it's a transgender memoir, Jim, but not as know The Telegraph - By Tristram Fane SaundersSomething That May Shock and Discredit You isn’t a memoir. There is a very particular memoir which it isn’t, a memoir the author has carefully not written: “The fight against writing Son of a Preacher
The TelegraphPoetry Is Rupert Brooke’s nostalgic poetry doggerel – or divine? The TelegraphHow good a poet was Rupert Brooke? He propelled two quotations into the national psyche: “Stands the church clock at ten to three?/And is there honey still for tea?”, from “The Old Vicarage, Grantchester”;
The TelegraphAnna Wintour The Chiffon Trenches by André Leon Talley review: wild, toxic tales from the world of haute couture The Telegraph - By Lisa ArmstrongVogue editor Anna Wintour’s spurned sidekick André Leon Talley takes few prisoners in his exposé of nasty fashionistas, says Lisa Armstrong André Leon Talley’s The Chiffon Trenches – his account of life
The TelegraphMedieval Pilgrims by Matthew Kneale, review: a mischievous medieval road trip The Telegraph - By Francesca CaringtonMatthew Kneale, novelist, historian and son of Judith Kerr, has set his new novel in 1289, following a group of English pilgrims on their journey to Rome. Like his prize-winning English Passengers (2000),
