Within months of seizing Iraq's second biggest city, Mosul, in June 2014, Isis had splintered the authority of embattled leaders on both sides of the now-irrelevant border between Iraq and Syria and created a terrifying new form of governance, rooted in an uncompromising reading of Islamic tenets and unchecked savagery.
I read three uncompromising novels this year, books that showed no sign of having been cooked up in the Laboratory for Disguised Sequels that supplies a lot of publishing product.
It's especially galling, given that Hamilton's A Map of the World is still one of the most exhilaratingly uncompromising novels I've read (if you haven't yet, it's Anne Tyler with aggro, Roth with humanity).
My wife, a woman of great taste and uncompromising notions about reading in one's spare time does not join me.
XB Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop The Color Purple has such an uncompromising opening that many never read any further, including, to Alice Walker's sorrow, her mother.
Some read Olney for his uncompromising style alone.
Whether you read this behavior as uncompromising or impulsive, Moon swears it's the key to his work.
How you answer will help you decide whether or not to read this most singular and stylistically uncompromising of novels.
Read the full review Stark and uncompromising account of existence inside a Nazi death camp from Hungarian director László Nemes, with Geza Röhrig as the Sonderkommando attempting to survive.
But, as the son of a legendary anarchist, Kharms had a sense for the affinity between insurrectionary politics and the rowdy, uncompromising imagination of children — and his books are still read widely by young Russians today.
