Dale Salwak, the editor of a new collection of essays, tell us why he wanted to probe this most complicated of relationships, while Judy Carver, the daughter of William Golding – he of Lord of the Flies – sheds light on her father’s difficult relationship with his mother; Charlotte Shane introduces us to Marjorie Hillis, who, in the 1930s, taught American women how to "live alone and like it"; finally, TLS editor Catharine Morris considers the difficult genesis of Latvian literature
Myth-busting, awkwardness, pure Marvellousness
Vivian Gornick’s Time
Avoidance and absurdity
Ishiguro’s AI and Grendel’s Mother
Nostalgia, Outsiders and "Rubber Tramps"
Weapons, Grouse and Red Herrings
Tentatively Pressing
The Barbara Comyns revival
BONUS: David Baddiel - Jews Don't Count
Borges - Encounters and "Encounters"
Delicate Matters
Epiphanies and Kidneys
This is Pakistan
Jacques Tati’s Serious Gags
Stalin, little and large
Beethoven at 250
BONUS: 2020 Booker Prize Winner - Douglas Stuart
Neither Victims nor Perpetrators
Gagged with Ashes
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