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Nicholas Taylor-Collins

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Category: Book review

  • Whose fault is it anyway? Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’

    Whose fault is it anyway? Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’

    No doubt editors are as old as authors. For Shakespeare, there were not only his fellow actors, but also the Master of the Revels to regulate, edit, and to censor his plays. T.S. Eliot made abundant and explicit use of Ezra Pound’s incisive cutting for ‘The Waste Land’ (1922), calling him ‘il miglio fabbro’ (‘the…

  • The beyond: ‘Night Boat to Tangier’ by Kevin Barry

    The Moroccan port city of Tangier nowadays conjures images of refugees and migrants preparing to cross the Strait of Gibraltar from Africa’s northernmost country, Morocco, to mainland Europe at Spain. A common entry point into the ‘West’, Spain’s southern coast is, in these images and narratives, a kind of limit point for ‘civilisation’. It would…