by NRB | 28 Sep 2023 | Fiction |
Set in New York, Anna Kate Blair’s debut novel explores the art of curation, sexuality, modernism, and knowing one’s own mind. This is a novel to savour, its language crystalline, its acute observations tumbling one after the other. In the opening paragraph,...
by NRB | 27 Oct 2020 | Non-fiction |
Richard Ovenden, head of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, makes the case for libraries and the preservation of knowledge. Libraries, those repositories of human knowledge, have become a popular subject for writers. Collections built, sacked and resurrected feature in...