Incest, alcoholism, robbery, gunfire, murder, sensational court trials — these are among the building blocks of the dysfunctional-family memoir, and in “She Left Me the Gun” Emma Brockes puts a check mark next to each.
Schlagwort-Archive: Dwight Garner
Portrait: John le Carré
As he enters his ninth decade, Carré is in the midst of a hardy late-career bloom, thanks in no small part to the critical and popular success of the 2011 film “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” based on his 1974 cold-war espionage classic of the same name.
Rezension: Errol Morris: “A Wilderness of Error”
“A Wilderness of Error” tinkers explicitly with larger themes, not merely those of innocence and guilt and morality but also how we arrive at the narratives that undergird our notions of these things.
Rezension: Ginger Strand: “Killer on the Road”
When Vladimir Nabokov wrote in “Lolita” that “you can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style,” he was not predicting the arrival of the serial killer and necrophile Ted Bundy. But he might have been.
Rezension: Richard Lloyd Parry: “People Who Eat Darkness”
The title of Richard Lloyd Parry’s true-crime book “People Who Eat Darkness,” is creepy, especially now that zombies are in the news. Its sleek cover, which features a blurry sketch of a serial rapist and murderer, is creepier still.