Favourite novelist? “There are so many things I like about Milan Kundera’s books, but I particularly admire his extraordinary insight into the nature of memory. I also love the way he constantly analyses the actions of his characters philosophically.” She has just finished his Ignorance (Faber, 2002).
About to read? Summer in Baden-Baden by the Jewish doctor Leonid Tsypkin (Hamish Hamilton, 2003), both an autobiography and a biography of Dostoyevsky. “I admire Dostoyevsky and find it difficult to understand how someone who could write with such sensitivity could also be so anti-Semitic.”
For work? She has just bought Aristotle’s …
