BooksReviewJane Rogers revisits Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist, a novel she was first drawn to when she was living in a squatI first read Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist in 1987, two years after it was published. I thought it was a surprising book for Doris Lessing to have written: my sense of her territory was Africa, women, and a fascination with the exploration of inner worlds. There was always something expansive, even exotic, about her fiction. Read More...
The ObserverBooksReviewAn exhaustive study of footage from an exhausting bike race, an affecting novel within a novel, and a hymn to the beauty of the Cornish coastline 1923: The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France ObsessionNed Boulting
Bloomsbury, £18.99, pp288
As lockdown projects go, this was a good one. Boulting bought a two-minute clip of an old bike race for £120 at auction. Holding the film up to the light, he realised this was distant and long-forgotten Tour de France footage – a race he commentates on every summer. Read More...
Alabama This article is more than 5 months oldMontgomery riverboat co-captain says he was hanging on ‘for dear life’ in brawlThis article is more than 5 months oldDamien Pickett, who is Black, describes being attacked by white boaters after attempting to move their pontoon boat
An Alabama boat co-captain was hanging on “for dear life” as men punched and tackled him on the riverfront of the state’s capital city, he told police after video of the brawl circulated widely online. Read More...
