In Andrés Neuman’s latest novel, we meet Yoshie Watanabe, a retired electronics executive, in a Tokyo subway station one afternoon when he feels a vibration, then a tremor, before “the floor…
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As the theologian Paul Tillich defined the distinction, loneliness is the pain of being alone, solitude is the glory of being alone. Both solitude and socialising can be enjoyable when we…
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Tori Amos launched her career at the age of 13, performing at Mr Henry’s, a Washington DC gay bar for tips collected in a brandy snifter atop the piano. Her father,…
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‘Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick,’ wrote Susan Sontag in Illness as Metaphor. While each of us will…
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The fuzzy, beady-eyed pandas in Samanta Schweblin’s new novel Little Eyes are
cute. Even their name, “kentuki”, is cute. But, as George Orwell wrote about Big
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After debating which gesture, virus oblige, is meant to replace the handshake (an elbow-bump? a Vulcan salute?), I sit down with Sebastian Barry to discuss his new book A Thousand Moons.…