Archive for News and Previews (past)

‘When I was nineteen the whole world flashed around my ears, all my false standards of values crumbled, everything that I had been sure of - the touch and quality of stone, the meaning of eating and sleeping and suffering, the texture of civilisation, all collapsed and left me in darkness. The world no longer existed. I was dead in some nightmarish way. . .’

–Emanuel Litvinoff to his younger brother Barnet, 9 July 1940.

A new book, published by Oxford University Press, 25 October 2007.

An appreciative afterword published in David Spero, Churches, London: SteidlMACK, October 2007.