dorislessingsJust a quick post to raise a few cheers for Doris Lessing getting the Nobel gong for Literature. The Golden Notebook has long been my favourite book – not because it’s feminist, which is to miss the point of Lessing – but because her acute psychological awareness, her deep understanding of that which drives the [...]
Doris Lessing is my only friend on Myspace. I only joined it because, intriguingly, the 86-year-old writer of such classics as The Golden Notebook has just set up a profile, or someone has done so on her behalf.
I can’t believe how bad MySpace is. I’ve never really bothered hanging around before. It’s full [...]
One of my favourite books* documents a period in the 1940s and 50s when the communist dream was becoming a nightmare, and progressive thinkers all over the world were becoming disillusioned. One of the symptoms of this malaise was that it became impossible to tell the difference in communist literature between three groups: those [...]
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