How a Birmingham boy became best-selling thriller writer, Lee Child, and the creator of one of the literary world's most popular loners. (R)
James Grant grew up in Birmingham when it was a bustling industrial city.
While huge workforces would pour of the factories as men ended their shifts and headed home on bicycles, for children, there wasn't ... Show More
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Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis
In the 1990s, Glenn Jarvis was living in London working for a very powerful American corporation called Enron. He was under a huge amount of stress at work, when his mental health began to spiral downwards.In the late 1990s Australian Glenn Jarvis won a job in London with Enron, ... Show More
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Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi is a British author, playwright, and screenwriter, widely regarded for his exploration of identity, race, and multiculturalism. Born in 1954 in South London, to a Pakistani father and an English mother, his major breakthrough came with his 1990 novel The Buddha of ... Show More
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Why We Want What Tom Ripley Has
<p>In her 1955 novel, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Talented-Mr-Ripley-Patricia-Highsmith/dp/0393332144"><strong>The Talented Mr. Ripley</strong></a>,” Patricia Highsmith introduced readers to the figure of Tom Ripley, an antihero who covets the good life, and achieves it—by s ... Show More
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The Elusive Promise of the First Person
<p>The first person is a narrative style as old as storytelling itself—one that, at its best, allows us to experience the world through another person’s eyes. On this episode of Critics at Large, Vinson Cunningham, Naomi Fry, and Alexandra Schwartz trace how the technique has bee ... Show More
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Robert Durst, un riche héritier devenu tueur en série • Episode 1 sur 2
L’effroyable histoire de Robert Alan Durst nous montre que la richesse n’est définitivement pas source de bonheur. Elle n’efface ni le manque d’amour, ni la perversion, ni le meurtre. Héritier d’une famille ayant fait fortune dans l’immobilier, cet Américain a défrayé les chroniq ... Show More
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