April 2021 Issue Leo Robson The Great American Novelist? Philip Roth: The Biography By Blake Bailey Philip Roth: A Counterlife By Ira Nadel
April 2021 Issue Sara Wheeler Queen of Hearts My Autobiography of Carson McCullers By Jenn Shapland LR
July 1999 Issue Brenda Maddox The Woman Behind the Wheel Véra (Mrs Véra Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage By Stacy Schiff
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May 2017 Issue Jay Parini Tender Is the Writer Paradise Lost: A Life of F Scott Fitzgerald By David S Brown I’d Die for You and Other Lost Stories By F Scott Fitzgerald (Edited by Anne Margaret Daniel)
February 2017 Issue Alison Flood Hitting the Jackpot Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life By Ruth Franklin LR
December 1989 Issue Hilary Mantel Posthumous Convert to the Sisterhood Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up By Hermione Lee The Short Stories of Willa Cather By Hermione Lee (ed) The Song of the Lark & Death Comes for the Archbishop By Willa Cather
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September 2015 Issue Michael Gorra Emperor of Self Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal By Jay Parini
September 2012 Issue Sam Leith Bandanna on the Run Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace By D T Max
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, or is there something awry?
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D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
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