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Diana Bagnall

The Case Against Fragrance by Kate Grenville

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April 2017, no. 390
Diana Bagnall reviews 'The Case Against Fragrance' by Kate Grenville

Kate Grenville’s publisher wasn’t keen on her writing a book about fragrance. He would have preferred another novel from the author of ...

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The New Yorker Book of the 60s: Story of a decade edited by Henry Finder

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March 2017, no. 389
Diana Bagnall reviews 'The New Yorker Book of the 60s: Story of a decade' edited by Henry Finder

Journalism is on the back foot. That’s putting it kindly. Hundreds of newspapers and thousands of careers have been consigned to the great media burial ground since the dawning of the digital age. Those still standing operate in a climate of deepening mistrust. From Trump’s America to Erdoğan’s Turkey, demagogues saddled with democratic political systems trum ...

Destined to Live: One woman's war, life, loves remembered by Sabina Wolanski (with Diana Bagnall)

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May 2008, no. 301
Yossi Klein reviews 'Destined to Live: One Woman’s War, Life, Loves Remembered' by Sabina Wolanski (with Diana Bagnall)

Amongst Holocaust accounts, literature and writing, there have emerged four distinctly identifiable forms: the academic historical text, exemplified by historians such as Martin Gilbert and Philip Friedman; literature, by writers such as Eli Wiesel and Primo Levi; the allegorical tale, such as Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (2005), Karen Hesse’s The Cats in Krasinski Square (2004), and Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (1986); and the anecdotal account, such as this book by Sabina Wolanski, Destined to Live: One Woman’s War, Life, Loves Remembered.

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