The more I learnt of Curzio Malaparte the less I trusted him. At times he was a visionary writer but I wonder how much invention was involved in his portraits of contemporaries such as Himmler, whom he claimed to have met. The lack of trust affected my reading of his books, though not my interest in the man who wrote them

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The NGV holds a portrait that might or might not be by Vincent Van Gogh. If it is, it is worth a king's ransom; if not, a pittance. Provenance sleuth Antonio De Robertis is convinced the work is genuine -- and if he is correct, the NGV may well have to pay more than $5 million for a work it has held since 1940

Is the interview the lowest form of writing? Particularly interviews with writers which often consist simply of writing what they say about writing.

You would expect a man who had been condemned to […]