1. A review of Making a Point by David Crystal:
From The Guardian: Is a full stop really worth four commas? And should everybody avoid the semi-colon? This book from the popular linguist David Crystal will amuse and instruct.
2. An interview with Adrian Tomine about his new graphic novel Killing and Dying
From Guernica: The acclaimed graphic novelist on coming of age in his comic book series, portraying Asian-American characters, and laying bare the anxieties of fatherhood.
3. How does an author’s reputation shape your response to a book?
From The New York Times: Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Zoë Heller and Siddhartha Deb discuss how what we know about a writer changes our reading.
4. An excerpt from Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (the pseudonym of JK Rowling)
From The Guardian: A murderer is trailing his next victim … Career of Evil is the new novel – following the bestsellers The Cuckoo’s Calling and The Silkworm – to feature detective Cormoran Strike. This is the first chapter:
He had not managed to scrub off all her blood. A dark line like a parenthesis lay under the middle fingernail of his left hand. He set to digging it out, although he quite liked seeing it there: a memento of the previous day’s pleasures.
5. An Essay on Patrick Modiano, 2014 Nobel Literature Prize Laureate
From The Millions: Modiano’s work, including his most recent novel, Pour Que Tu Ne Te Perdes Pas Dans Le Quartier (So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood), released in France just before he was awarded the Nobel Prize, is more a series of incremental epiphanies on the past, on lost opportunities, on lost people, on the small gaps in memory that leave his narrators and protagonists in a world from which they are one step removed.
6. A Review of Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Jonathan Bate
From New Statesman: Jonathan Bate’s unauthorised biography confirms that, no matter how energetic his love life, Hughes’s obsession with Sylvia Plath never faded.
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- Making a Point: The Pernickity Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal
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- Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
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- The Believers: A Novel by Zoë Heller
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- The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India by Siddhartha Deb
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- A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
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- A Trace of Malice by Patrick Modiano
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- Villa Triste by Patrick Modiano
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- Ring Roads: A Novel by Patrick Modiano
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- Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life by Ted Hughes
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