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J.M. Coetzee has lost the plot

Stig Abell 20 August 2016 9:00 am

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Nothing connects

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Umbrella, by Will Self

Stig Abell 18 August 2012 6:00 am

James Joyce once described Ulysses — in dog Italian — as a ‘maledettisimo romanzaccione’, or monstrously big novel. It has…

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