David Szalay

since 2025 › Feb › 22 (Sat) @ 22:39 UTC

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58 days ago

Flesh by David Szalay review – brilliantly spare portrait of a man

found 2025 › Mar › 06 (Thu) @ 15:36 UTC

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From youthful curiosity to midlife resignation, the protagonist is buffeted by forces beyond his control in this thrilling exploration of what it means to be alive

Samuel Butler’s 1903 novel The Way o…

70 days ago

Writer David Szalay: ‘We live in an era of short attention spans – we have to work with it the best we can’

found 2025 › Feb › 22 (Sat) @ 22:33 UTC

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The Hungarian-English author on addressing what it’s like to be a male body in the world, learning the tricks of literature from Frederick Forsyth, and the feeling of nearly winning the Booker

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