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Chris Rose A Season With Verona – Tim Parks See all books by Tim Parks at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com At dinner recently with a group of other Brits now resident in Italy and the subject of Tim Parks comes up. "When will that

Stephen Mitchelmore finds Thomas Bernhard to be elusive within two studies of the Austrian writer What if everything we can be depends on playing a role? Where would that leave us? Well, first of all, it would mean that the public self, the one

Stephen Mitchelmore Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald See all books by W.G. Sebald at Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com (Editor’s note: this review was written a couple of weeks prior to W.G. Sebald’s untimely death in a

Stephen Mitchelmore reflects on Thomas Bernhard’s work on the tenth anniversary of the writer’s death ‘Literature can be defined by the sense of the imminence of a revelation which does not in fact occur.’ (Borges) Like

Stephen Mitchelmore explains why the writing of E.M. Cioran refuses explanation “Nothing is more irritating than those works which ‘co-ordinate’ the luxuriant products of a mind that has focused on