Vahni Capildeo’s Skin Can Hold bursts with ideas, electric with the joy of words. Capildeo is a writer enamoured with language, and her book offers up sextina, rondeau, motet, dialogue, ...
Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich’s latest novel…takes the idea of a ‘retrieval of history’ seriously – not just in its pale liberal version (‘memory’), but as the ...
Written in one unbroken paragraph, Petite Fleur accumulates detail until it torques, taking on the rhythm of nightmare. Continue Reading Book Review: Petite Fleur, by Iosi Havilio
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A strong voice from the past with an extract of Argentinian writer Alicia Jurado’s memoirs. These have been translated into English for the first time by Jessica Sequeira, enabling us ...
