Amsterdam underworld

‘The Goldfinch’ by Carl Fabritius, the theft of which is central to Donna Tartt’s new novel

Dutch comfort

12 October 2013 9:00 am

Donna Tartt is an expert practitioner of what David Hare has called ‘the higher hokum’. She publishes a long novel…

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