Ian Nairn, route master

Published: Aug. 2, 2017, 11 p.m.

b'With Lucy Dallas and Toby Lichtig. The TLS critic David Collard explores the idiosyncratic worlds of Ian Nairn \\u2013 architectural critic, psychogeographer, \\u201ca cross between Anthony Burgess and Tony Hancock\\u201d \\u2013 and describes Nairn\\u2019s influence on a generation of authors, including Simon Okotie, whose new novel he\\u2019s also reviewed in this week\\u2019s TLS. The paper\'s biography editor Catharine Morris tells the story of Tuco, the African grey parrot, and his influence on the life and work of the novelist Brian Brett. Lisa Hilton explains why the Marquis de Sade is a progressive moral satirist and a \\u201crotten pornographer\\u201d.


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