cannibalism

An immorality tale: Lapvona, by Ottessa Moshfegh, reviewed

25 June 2022 9:00 am

Has there been a better novel this century than Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation? There might not…

The cannibal feast: Mother for Dinner, by Shalom Auslander, reviewed

13 February 2021 9:00 am

Seventh Seltzer is a nice family man, working as a publisher’s reader in New York, who happens to come from…

‘A new Raft of the Medusa’.Two survivors, Maurice Anderson and Goodman Thomasen, of the Norwegian ship Drot turned on their German companion in an act of cannibalism — after which Anderson savagely attacked Thomasen (From Le Petit Journal, 1899.)

The worst things happen at sea

7 October 2017 9:00 am

This horrifying and engrossing book could scarcely be improved upon. In this age of HRHs Harry, William and Kate-led openness…

Chairman Mao devours his foes

30 April 2016 9:00 am

Frank Dikötter, professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong and winner of the Samuel Johnson prize in 2011,…

Is this the real Queen? (Photo: Getty)

So the Queen's a Satanist cannibal? I’d still swear allegiance

30 January 2016 9:00 am

Roy was a superb mechanic, a methodical master of his trade. For an hour I respectfully watched him work to…

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Why don’t the French bomb Belgium?

28 November 2015 9:00 am

I am always open to spiritual guidance from any quarter, all the more so if that guidance is of practical…