The English Patient review: Love and loss in the desert fires
From the archive: Eileen Battersby’s review of ‘The English Patient’ by Michael Ondaatje, originally published on September 12th, 1992
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If you build it, they will come for their cut: Birth of a Bridge, by Maylis de Kerangal
Review: This French novel about a very American megaproject is both astonishingly lyrical and bracingly topical, writes Eileen Battersby
The camera sometimes lies: making myths through a lens
In these three edited extracts from his latest book, Rod Stoneman examines the real story behind sometimes misleading photographs of Che Guevara, the fall of Berlin and Ernest Hemingway
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer
This intimate history of the unravelling of the American Dream both fascinates and agitates
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