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Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 45 No. 14

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At what point does faith turn into tyranny? In Immanuel, winner of the inaugural Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Matthew McNaught explores his upbringing in an evangelical Christian community in Winchester. As he moved away from the…

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‘Chilling and vital. . . sensitive and thought-provoking’ The TimesAn anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can…

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Investigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is a gripping first-person story…

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'A masterful writer' - RAYMOND CARVEROver the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute,…

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 Translated from the Spanish by James WomackThe translator Anthony Kerrigan compared Camilo José Cela, the 1989 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, to Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Curzio Malaparte—all…

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'The spirit of Elena Ferrante haunts this tale of a friendship forged in Karachi' - Sunday Times'A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces' - Madeline Miller'A shining tour de force' - Ali…

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An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live…

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