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Writer s Reads: Rana Foroohar, author of Don t Be Evil – The Case Against Big Tech Writer s Reads: Rana Foroohar, author of Don t Be Evil – The Case Against Big Tech Written by Geographical 2021 Rana Foroohar is the author of Makers and Takers (2016) and Don t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech (2019). She is a business columnist, an associate editor at the Financial Times, and CNN s global economic analyst. Here, she shares a selection of reads that have inspired, shaped and moved her
An Artist of the Floating World • Kazuo Ishiguro
• 1986
My favourite writer of all time.
Remains of the Day is wonderful, but this book, which follows an ageing painter in post-WWII Japan looking back on his life, is my personal favourite. Both play with memory and what we chose to forget or reimagine.
Sheer Bliss: A Creole Journey
By Michela A. Calderaro
Book description
“We all know Jean Rhys. But now, out from under the shadow of her more famous contemporary, comes Eliot Bliss. Bliss: an early twentieth century, white creole, Jamaican, lesbian writer. Bliss: whose out-of-print 1931 novel Saraband Calderaro first stumbles across in a bookshop in New York in 1998. Bliss: the absent figure Calderaro pursues throughout this book. The scholar Michela Calderaro reads into the past to recover Bliss, a writer she reveals as ahead of her time and not fit for her time or place in the world. Calderaro delivers Bliss back to the present, through interviews conducted across many years with Bliss’s lifelong partner Patricia Allan-Burns, through the recollections of editors and friends painstakingly tracked down, through letters and diaries discovered and meticulously pored over and pieced together. Calderaro’s book is, like Bliss’s own novels as we come to learn, genre-defying. One
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Florence translator puts stamp on new book earning rave reviews
Michael Favala Goldman of Florence translated part of a new edition of memoirs by Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen that has earned rave reviews by critics. MICHAEL FAVALA GOLDMAN
“The Copenhagen Trilogy” is a new English-language edition of three acclaimed memoirs by the late Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen.
By STEVE PFARRER
FLORENCE The reviews are in, and they’re all good.
A new English-language edition of three memoirs by the late Danish author Tove Ditlevsen, a revered literary figure in her country, is earning top marks from critics across the board, particularly the third volume of the trilogy “Dependency.”
“She was a narcissist who described herself beautifully.” The description of the mid 20th-century novelist Jean Rhys doesn’t apply to the author who wrote it, even if, in style and sentiment, it epitomises the publication in which it appeared – sly, aphoristic and unapologetically imperious. Mary-Kay Wilmers published her first piece for the
London
Review of Books in 1981, two years after joining the “paper” as an editor and 11 years before she became the editor-in-chief. (She is also the owner.) Since then, the
LRB, which has a circulation of around 80,000 according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, but relies on financial support from the Wilmers family trust, has become, in its own self-description, “the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance”. On 29 January Wilmers, 82, stepped down after nearly 30 years as editor. She will be succeeded by deputy editor Jean McNicol and s