edmund gosse
Janet Malcolm – an original mind inflected by psychoanalysis
Subtle, penetrating and dispassionate, Malcolm betrays a special kind of understanding in her criticism – derived from listening carefully, like a shrink
Parallel lives
Aged 69, the travel writer had a stroke and spent his last 20 years as a hemiplegic – and writing this memoir of his father’s life intertwined with snapshots of his own
The lives of others
Strange, when your own life flatlines, the way in which other lives become suddenly more interesting. I have been retreating…
