LeavingOne of the leading living European writers, Cees Nooteboom never shies away from contemporary issues. His latest collection of poems, Leaving, begins in a garden with descriptions of Mediterranean plants, but what emerges are memories of the warimages of a distant past that have never disappeared. The poems take another turn when, unexpectedly, a mysterious virus takes control of the world and turns life upside down. A collection that can be read as a

Bartholomew perhaps understood the evidentiary and historical role of the photograph

is the story of a folk hero who robs the rich much in the style of Robin Hood and evades the law until he comes up against one wall he cannot scale—his own commitment to the truth

and historians and researchers David Arnold and Indira Chowdhury

fiction and literary genealogy

Pages: 188

along with a detailed introduction and a dialogue with the artist

In Flowers of Blood (1971) and Reflection (1987)

an intellectual tastemaker

Pages: 208

Thomas Mann

Meenakshi Ammal

but do not say it