The fearful forties
In an early chapter of All Grown Up, the narrator Andrea says to her therapist: ‘Why is being single the…
The curse of Mr Kurtz
Marie Darrieussecq shot to literary fame in France when her bestselling debut, Pig Tales (1996), was a finalist for the…
The folly of youth
Let’s start with arithmetic. Edmund White’s 11th novel is a book about age and ageing. The young man of the…
