Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)
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After the Fall
July 13, 2006
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky, translated from the French by Sandra Smith
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Suddenly, Last Summer
March 9, 2006
The Sea
by John Banville
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When the Russians Came
October 6, 2005
A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City
by Anonymous, translated from the German by Philip Boehm
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Sonata for Three Hands
May 12, 2005
The Kreutzer Sonata
by Margriet de Moor, translated from the Dutch by Susan Massotty
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A Very Un-English Childhood
March 10, 2005
Germs: A Memoir of Childhood
by Richard Wollheim
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Love in Upper Bohemia
November 18, 2004
The Rare and the Beautiful: The Art, Loves, and Lives of the Garman Sisters
by Cressida Connolly
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Lichtenberg in Love
August 12, 2004
Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl
by Gert Hofmann,translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann
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Vile Bodies
March 25, 2004
Some Hope: A Trilogy
by Edward St. Aubyn
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Tales of Two Cities
February 26, 2004
Bliss
by Ronit Matalon,translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
Someone to Run With
by David Grossman,translated from the Hebrew by Vered Almog and Maya Gurantz
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Cold Comfort
August 14, 2003
The King in the Tree
by Steven Millhauser
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Portrait of a Princess
April 10, 2003
Diary of a Djinn
by Gini Alhadeff
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Brief Encounter
December 5, 2002
Ignorance
by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher
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Surviving
November 7, 2002
In Lands Not My Own: A Wartime Journey
by Reuben Ainsztein
Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth
by Victor Brombert
Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered
by Ruth Kluger, with a foreword by Lore Segal
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Who Killed Bogomil Trumilcik?
May 9, 2002
The Horned Man
by James Lasdun
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The Woman Who Rode Away
February 14, 2002
Beasts
by Joyce Carol Oates
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Ghost Story
November 1, 2001
Austerlitz
by W.G. Sebald, translated from the German by Anthea Bill
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Escape!
July 5, 2001
The Peppered Moth
Margaret Drabble
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Shock Treatment
May 17, 2001
Border Crossing by Pat Barker
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Act Two
April 12, 2001
Love, Etc. Julian Barnes
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Breakdown
March 8, 2001
Eclipse by John Banville
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Turncoats
November 30, 2000
Too Far Afield
by Günter Grass, Translated from the Germanby Krishna Winston
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Twin Peaks
September 21, 2000
What Are You Like?
by Anne Enright
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Close to the Edge
June 29, 2000
Mr. Phillips
by John Lanchester
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On Borrowed Time
March 23, 2000
The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann
by Ingeborg Bachmann, Translated from the German and with an introduction by Peter Filkins
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Family Secrets
October 7, 1999
The Last Life
by Claire Messud
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Letting Go
June 10, 1999
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
by A.S. Byatt
Human Voices
by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Ghosts
May 20, 1999
Another World
by Pat Barker
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Wages of Sin
January 14, 1999
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
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Pricks and Kicks
November 5, 1998
Mistler’s Exit
by Louis Begley
Europa
by Tim Parks
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Nesting Dolls
July 16, 1998
33 Moments of Happiness
by Ingo Schulze, translated by John E. Woods
Simple Storys by Ingo Schulze
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The Charms of Theodore Fontane
June 25, 1998
Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich by Gordon A. Craig
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Fantasia
February 19, 1998
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda a film directed by Gillian Armstrong
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The Mahdi’s Bullet
January 15, 1998
The Magician’s Wife by Brian Moore
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Ghosts
September 25, 1997
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse
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No Man’s Land
July 17, 1997
Reality and Dreams
by Muriel Spark
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In Search of the Wild Boy
April 10, 1997
The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf
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An International Episode
February 6, 1997
Le Divorce by Diane Johnson
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That’s Life
October 17, 1996
The Collected Stories
by Mavis Gallant
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All About Evil
August 8, 1996
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
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An Affair to Remember
January 11, 1996
Carrington an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
Carrington a film directed by Christopher Hampton
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End of the Line
August 10, 1995
The Poet Dying: Heinrich Heine’s Last Years in Paris by Ernst Pawel
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Broken Blossoms
April 20, 1995
Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan Klíma, translated by Paul Wilson
The Loves of Faustyna by Nina FitzPatrick
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Through the Looking Glass
March 23, 1995
The Last of the Duchess
by Caroline Blackwood
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Enigma Variation
December 1, 1994
The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom, translated by Ina Rilke
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The Blood of the Poor
November 17, 1994
The Silent Angel by Heinrich Böll, translated by Breon Mitchell
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Love’s Old Sweet Song
November 3, 1994
The Folding Star
by Alan Hollinghurst
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‘When One Is a Somebody’
May 12, 1994
Pirandello’s Love Letters to Marta Abba edited and translated by Benito Ortolani
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Love and Friendship
February 17, 1994
Love From Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford edited by Charlotte Mosley
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Donna Giovanna
December 16, 1993
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
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A Night at the Opera
November 4, 1993
‘Fast and Loose’ and ‘The Buccaneers’ by Edith Wharton, edited and with an introduction by Viola Hopkins Winner
The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton, completed by Marion Mainwaring
The Age of Innocence directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Jay Cocks, by Martin Scorsese
The Age of Innocence: A Portrait of the Film Based on the Novel by Edith Wharton by Martin Scorsese, by Jay Cocks
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, Introduction by R.W.B. Lewis
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Friend of the Great
August 12, 1993
Picasso and Dora: A Personal Memoir by James Lord
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Tales From the Narmada Woods
July 15, 1993
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
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The Skull Beneath the Skin
June 24, 1993
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Tim Parks
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La Femme Savante
April 22, 1993
Rameau’s Niece by Cathleen Schine
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Electra from Beverly Hills
April 8, 1993
Marlene Dietrich by Maria Riva
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Devil in the Flesh
March 4, 1993
Written on the Body
by Jeanette Winterson
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Peacetime Lies
January 28, 1993
The Man Who Was Late by Louis Begley
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Sighing Fields
December 3, 1992
O Caledonia
by Elspeth Barker
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Graveyard Utopia
November 19, 1992
The Call of the Toad by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim
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A Moral Tale
August 13, 1992
The Volcano Lover: A Romance
by Susan Sontag
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Numbers Game
May 28, 1992
The Gates of Ivory
by Margaret Drabble
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Still Life
May 14, 1992
A Closed Eye by Anita Brookner
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From the Eternal War
March 5, 1992
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Philip Boehm
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The Melancholy Prince
December 5, 1991
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa
by David Gilmour
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Cautionary Tales
September 26, 1991
The Tattered Cloak and Other Novels
by Nina Berberova, translated by Marian Schwartz
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Selective Affinities
May 30, 1991
Immortality by Milan Kundera, translated by Peter Kussi
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Sociable Murder
December 20, 1990
Symposium by Muriel Spark
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Love and Death in South Africa
November 8, 1990
Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee
My Son’s Story by Nadine Gordimer
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At the Bottom of the Pond
September 27, 1990
An Autumn Story
by Tommaso Landolfi, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
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Theme and Variations
May 31, 1990
Deception by Philip Roth
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Great-Uncle
March 29, 1990
Shira
by S. Y. Agnon, translated by Zeva Shapiro
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Look At Me
February 1, 1990
Memoirs of a Public Baby by Philip O'Connor, introduction by Stephen Spender
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On the High Wire
December 7, 1989
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Chaste Lovers
October 12, 1989
Count d’Orgel’s Ball
by Raymond Radiguet, translated by Annapaola Cancogni, foreword by Jean Cocteau
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The Old Devil
June 15, 1989
Difficulties with Girls by Kingsley Amis
John Dollar
by Marianne Wiggins
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High Romance
April 27, 1989
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford
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Rules of the Game
February 2, 1989
Utz by Bruce Chatwin
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Roughing It
December 22, 1988
High Albania by Edith Durham
The Passionate Nomad: The Diary of Isabelle Eberhardt by Isabelle Eberhardt
My Journey to Lhasa
by Alexandra David-Neel
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The Promised Land
August 18, 1988
Confessions of a Good Arab by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Dalya Bilu
Black Box by Amos Oz, translated, in collaboration with the author, by Nicholas De Lange
Twilight by Elie Wiesel, translated by Marion Wiesel
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Going Every Sort of Hog
March 17, 1988
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life
by Claire Tomalin
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Worriers
February 4, 1988
The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble
The Child In Time by Ian McEwan
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Changeling
September 24, 1987
Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr
Prick Up Your Ears a film directed by Stephen Frears, screenplay by Alan Bennett
The Orton Diaries edited by John Lahr
Head to Toe
by Joe Orton
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A Family Fortune
June 11, 1987
The Afternoon Sun by David Pryce-Jones
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Living Through the War
April 9, 1987
Berlin Diaries: 19401945
by Marie Vassiltchikov
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Goodness, How Sad
August 14, 1986
Nancy Mitford: A Biography by Selina Hastings
Noblesse Oblige: An enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy edited by Nancy Mitford, introduction by Russell Lynes
The Water Beetle by Nancy Mitford
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Supermaestro
May 29, 1986
Herbert von Karajan: A Biographical Portrait by Roger Vaughan
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The Force of Habit
November 7, 1985
All Our Yesterdays
by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Angus Davidson
Family Sayings
by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by D.M. Low
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg, translated by Dick Davis
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Transcendental Chutzpah
September 26, 1985
The Death of My Brother Abel by Gregor von Rezzori, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
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Saigon Mon Amour
June 27, 1985
The Lover by Marguerite Duras, translated by Barbara Bray
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Give Him a Break!
March 14, 1985
Aracoeli by Elsa Morante, translated by William Weaver
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Girl from Berlin
February 14, 1985
Marlene Dietrich’s ABC
Marlène D. by Marlene Dietrich
Sublime Marlene by Thierry de Navacelle
Marlene Dietrich: Portraits 19261960 introduction by Klaus-Jürgen Sembach, epilogue by Josef von Sternberg
Dietrich
by Alexander Walker
Marlene a film directed by Maximilian Schell, produced by Karel Dirka
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Inscrutable Genius
December 20, 1984
Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling
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Correction
December 6, 1984
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International Episodes
October 11, 1984
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
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Rilke in Life and Death
September 27, 1984
Rilke: A Life
by Wolfgang Leppmann, translated in collaboration with the author by Russell M. Stockman
The Sacred Threshold: A Life of Rainer Maria Rilke by J.F. Hendry
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell
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Breaking Up in Haifa
June 14, 1984
A Late Divorce by A.B. Yehoshua, Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin
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Not So Close to Colette
April 26, 1984
Colette
by Joanna Richardson
The Collected Stories of Colette edited with an introduction by Robert Phelps, translated by Matthew Ward, by Antonia White, by Anne-Marie Callimachi. others
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The Defrocked Romantic
February 16, 1984
Heine’s Jewish Comedy: A Study of His Portraits of Jews and Judaism by S.S. Prawer
The Complete Poems of Heinrich Heine: A Modern English Version translated by Hal Draper
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Escape Artist
November 24, 1983
Pierre Loti: The Legendary Romantic by Lesley Blanch
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Having It All
September 29, 1983
Alma Mahler: Muse to Genius by Karen Monson
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A Family and Its Fortunes
August 18, 1983
Baron James: The Rise of the French Rothschilds by Anka Muhlstein
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The Return of La Ronde
July 21, 1983
Arthur Schnitzler: Plays and Stories edited by Egon Schwarz, with a foreword by Stanley Elkin
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The Discreet Charm of Fontane
October 7, 1982
Theodor Fontane: Short Novels and Other Writings edited by Peter Demetz, translated by E.M. Valk, by Ulf Zimmermann, by Krishna Winston
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A Funny Meister
April 1, 1982
The Genius of Wilhelm Busch: Comedy of Frustration edited and translated by Walter Arndt
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The Magician
February 18, 1982
Thomas Mann: The Making of an Artist by Richard Winston
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Before the Deluge
February 5, 1981
Badenheim 1939
by Aharon Appelfeld, translated by Dalya Bilu