John Lanchester: The Case of Agatha Christie

23/08/2023 39 min
John Lanchester: The Case of Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie, writes John Lanchester, ‘is the only writer by whom I’ve than fifty books. So – why?’ In the second of our summer readings, Lanchester dissects Christie’s compulsive readability, and considers why, despite her brazen lack of style, she was a great experimental formalist.
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