‘This is a perfect novel’: Sally Rooney on the book that transformed her life

Published 70 years ago, All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg is a secret the Normal People author had been waiting to discover (from ‘The Guardian’):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/30/sally-rooney-book-transformed-her-life-all-our-yesterdays-natalia-ginzburg?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

Zelensky: A Biography; Putin: His Life and Times reviews

Striking biographies by Serhii Rudenko and Philip Short pit Ukraine’s comic actor turned wartime hero against Russia’s pragmatic, inscrutable insider (from ‘The Guardian’):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/29/zelensky-a-biography-serhii-rudenko-putin-his-life-and-times-philip-short-reviews-biographies-ukraine-war?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years

Four writers and one bookseller gathered over Zoom to make a list devoted to fiction in which the city is more than mere setting. (from nytimes.com):

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/22/t-magazine/new-york-city-novels-books.html?referringSource=articleShare

Michael Rosen marks Anne Frank anniversary with new poem

Seventy-five years after Diary of a Young Girl’s publication, Sonnet for Anne Frank reflects on the ‘awful paradox’ of the journal’s bright spirit and her fate (in ‘The Guardian’):

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/25/michael-rosen-marks-anne-frank-anniversary-with-new-poem?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other