My parents were grocers. For twenty-five years they owned a shop with a green awning and crates of vegetables...
The way I see it, the avant-garde emerged at a point when the professionalisation of artists had consumed itself...
In 1999, Ahdaf Soueif’s second novel, The Map of Love, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, eventually losing out...
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