Annie Proulx’s naked language and painfully focused delivery make these stories shimmer and burn their way into the memory. Continue Reading Book Review: Barkskins by Annie Proulx
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In both these debut novels, the culture of the marginalised features prominently. Continue Reading Book Review: Kit De Waal’s My Name is Leon vs Emma Claire ...
A new study to be published in the September issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine has found that people who read books for 30 minutes a day lived ...
“We’ll continue to send a portrait of our best selves into space, a declaration that we were here, that we strove for understanding, that we often failed and occasionally succeed. ...
Why do cults so fascinate the reading public, and why, when actual history begs one’s imagination with its rawness, does fiction carry such great weight in their portrayal? ...
Liptrot will be appearing this weekend at the Caught by the River Thames Festival. Continue Reading Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun and the New Nature Writing
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Cline uses the image of Sasha leaving with Julian at the end of the novel to emphasise that the abuse of teenage girls’ vulnerability is as relevant today as it ...
Litro contributor Lochlan Bloom reflects on his debut novel, The Wave. Continue Reading What’s It All About?: On Writing My Debut Novel, The Wave
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Born on a Tuesday is the debut novel of former Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John. Continue Reading Heroes Without a Name: Born on a Tuesday by Elnathan John
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Two stylish feminist heroines, two chunky 400-page literary historical novels, both published on the same day. What’s not to like? Continue Reading Book Review: Sarah Perry’s The Essex ...
Marta Pérez-Carbonell profiles the best works of Spanish fiction yet to be translated into English. Continue Reading The 10 Best Untranslated Spanish Novels
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Agualusa’s novel is an episodic, poetic and raw treatment of Angolan independence. Continue Reading Filtered Truth: A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
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One can’t help but leave Pamuk’s novel feeling a little disconcerted. Continue Reading Life Is Like This: A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
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I kissed her. I let the tip of my tongue wriggle into the gap between her front teeth. Continue Reading Verónica
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Xenobe Purvis on Chinese novel about totalitarian madness: the third of her Man Booker International Prize reviews. Continue Reading The Ministry of Truth: The Four Books by Yian ...
This debut novel by diplomat Guillermo Erades is a notable addition to the modern flâneur canon. Continue Reading Review: Back to Moscow by Guillermo Erades
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Hailey Bachrach reviews a hotly-tipped American debut. Continue Reading That Obscure Object of Desire: What Belongs To You by Garth Greenwell
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Xenobe Purvis reviews Elena Ferrante’s contender for the Man International Booker Prize. Continue Reading Story of an Erasure: The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
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In the run-up to the Man International Booker Prize announcement on May 16, Xenobe Purvis will be reviewing each of the sixth shortlisted books. First, The Vegetarian by South Korea’s ...
Javier Marías is Spain’s most celebrated novelist and a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Marta Pérez-Carbonell, whose book on Marías is soon to be published by Brill, ...
