REVIEW: PETER RAYNARD’S ‘MANLAND’

REVIEW: PETER RAYNARD’S ‘MANLAND’

REVIEW: PETER RAYNARD’S ‘MANLAND’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Sometimes – to paraphrase Tammy Wynette – it’s hard to be a man. In the last few years alone, the patriarchal throne has been rocked by #metoo’s exposure of the sickening ubiquity of...
REVIEW: LOUISE FAZACKERLEY’S ‘THE LOLITAS’

REVIEW: LOUISE FAZACKERLEY’S ‘THE LOLITAS’

REVIEW: LOUISE FAZACKERLEY’S ‘THE LOLITAS’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   “I am thinking of aurochs and angels,” declares the paedophile Humbert Humbert in the typically grandiloquent closing passage of Vladimir Nabokov’s scandalous 1955 novel Lolita. “The...