Sofka Zinovieff

The ballad of John and Anton

Barbash’s darkly humorous novel centres on the occupants of New York’s Dakota building and the fascination and curse of celebrity

issue 12 January 2019

  • The Dakota Winters

    Tom Barbash

    Scribner, pp. 324

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