I am an inveterate wanderer of library stacks. I could not count the hours whiled away strolling between bookshelves eyeing spines, reciting titles to myself, sometimes plucking a volume from its place to examine a cover. Once in a while, I open one at random to dip into the ceaseless ocean of wor.
The last word, our series about emotions in books, focuses on depictions of isolation this month, from a memoir of grief to Sam Selvon’s Windrush chronicle
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As a world authority on the Bard – and a long-time fanboy of the American singer, Jonathan Bate compares her (favourably) to the greats of poetry and prose.