From 2020, Natasha Pinnington (@pinningtonn) on Annie Ernaux:
‘We might think of Ernaux as the inaugurator of a subgenre, one that details the writer’s poverty-stricken upbringing in Northern France, the wrench and alienation of embourgeoisement....'
https://t.co/F8EJAcI5jg
I wrote about travelling, remembering travelling, the urge to take photos, and the strange, sly forms of documentation and self-invention in Bruce Chatwin’s travel writing, for @GrantaMag https://t.co/5f8eV2Og3C
Introducing Sidecar, the new NLR blog!
Our opening lineup features @TariqAli_News on Starmer's purge; @sophiepinkhmmm on Stalin's final ceremony; @majapearce on Ivoirian elections; Wolfgang Streeck on NATO; and @PinningtonN on Annie Ernaux.
Read now! https://t.co/em1trzfCNr
I wrote about Annie Ernaux - one of my favourite authors ever - the political contextualisation of her work and her growing reputation in English for a really exciting new arm of @NewLeftReview
https://t.co/qLmo76czd5
@rolandbarfs Sam Ladkin’s chapter ‘as they wander estranged: Ed Dorn’s Gunslinger’ is really great and also downloadable on https://t.co/rfdRvG3GjT: https://t.co/CfyaAIcbex
@jntod@lvkerlvker Nor even reliably UK based! he wrote letters to the Times and the Independent but even finding them is a needle in a haystack. One replies - if only I could find it - to general Ford’s warm appreciation of the media blackout of coverage of Bloody Sunday funerals - a rich seam!