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A discussion with the author of Love and Shame and Love.
Today we launch The Independent’s “Slow Reads.” Every month, we will recommend a book – not a new one – that is worth reading s-l-o-w-l-y, not on the Metro or in snatches. A book for which you will shut down the email and muzzle the tweets, avert your eyes from Facebook, and stop text messaging. We’ll provide a Slow Reads Forum for our readers to share their reactions to the book, and to nominate books for the months to come.
John Maxtone-Graham devotes his considerable knowledge and impeccable prose to a discussion of salient, provocative and rarely investigated components of the sinking of the Titanic.
We showcase a stunning debut short story collection, Monstress, and a period novel, Gillespie and I, that cleverly explores manipulative love. The Forest Laird is a fictional biography of William Wallace. And for a biography of the greatest photo-documentarian of our generation, read A Different Light, The Photography of Sebastião Salgado.
Martha Toll discusses the pitfalls of translating literary works.
James Tobin, author of The Wright Brothers: To Conquer the Air is a specialist in literary journalism and narrative history at Miami University of Ohio.
A trio of new Science Fiction novels and a book of non-fiction essays on NASA and the future of space travel are reviewed in this round up.
