Books we loved in 2021: Top authors reveal the best reads of the year
Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
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Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
Jonathan Franzen, Helen Garner, Kazuo Ishiguro and other leading writers from home and abroad give thanks for the books that got them through a difficult year.
An impressive debut collection juxtaposes the quotidian world of the flatshare with historical settings and mythic themes âOne day the whole glittering world would fadeâ ⦠a red admiral butterfly. Photograph: Tim Mason/Alamy âOne day the whole glittering world would fadeâ ⦠a red admiral butterfly. Photograph: Tim Mason/Alamy JudeCook Wed 10 Feb 2021 04.00 EST In George Saundersâ luminously perceptive meditation on lessons learned from the Russian masters, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he suggests a short story should âalways be escalatingâ; that ...