Vinicius Jatoba, one of Granta’s Best of Young Brazilian Novelists, on four female, contemporary writers whose work he particularly admires. Continue Reading Brazilian women are writing better ...
David Gaffney has a wit and aesthetic that is uniquely his own and, in More Sawn-Off Tales he inter-weaves the everyday and the bizarre with finesse and aplomb. ...
Antonio Marcio Da Silva examines Patrícia Galvão’s depiction of São Paulo’s geographical spaces of segregation, and the issues that industrialisation brought to 1920s Brazil. Continue Reading Snapshots of ...
The Gamal is a thrilling, disjointed tale of false-starts and whimpering endings, which succeeds to entertain whilst pretending not to care whether it does or not. Continue Reading ...
Multiples is nothing short of a grand experiment in storytelling; authorial rebellion; language, and how to read a book. Talking about it, let alone reviewing it, turns out to require ...
Guns, and their inevitable bullets, are splintered into the wood of the narrative from the first page; but so too is a probing of how anything ever begins, and how ...
In the last of her articles on the relationship between music and poetry, Clémence Sebag looks at how the spoken word draws on musical influences. Continue Reading ...
Should song lyrics ever be called poems? Clémence Sebag explores the murky world of musicians who claim poet status. Continue Reading Lyrics or Poems? And Does it ...
Occasionally the outline of what might be called a traditional narrative is briefly glimpsed, or hinted at, poking out behind a phrase or historical reference… Continue Reading Book ...
If a book with literary ambition should both inform and entertain, as well as make you see the world in a different way, if only slightly, then Tarttelin has certainly ...
Ali Shaw explores the sleepy hollow ways and tiptoe paths of the countryside as they wend their way through literature, from The Wind in the Willows to Tolkein’s Shire. ...
MaddAddam may appear to be a future-fiction romp of gene splicing and dystopia, but at its heart it is an extremely potent and powerful examination of humanity. Continue ...
Though Topol’s prose can be devoid of nuances The Devil’s Workshop is a powerful novel about the individual’s engagement with the demons from the past. Continue Reading Book ...
Sean Beaudoin chooses a dozen albums from his punk rock novel Wise Young Fool and pairs each, like a fine wine or craft cocktail, with a perfectly suited novel. Plus ...
Whilst cartoonish at times, Tyler Keevil’s The Drive is an entertaining and humorous road trip through the American wastelands. Continue Reading Book Review: The Drive by Tyler Keevil
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Lazy Gramophone must be commended here for assembling in Time an anthology that at least attempts to marry shrewd accessibility with artsy conceptual considerations. Continue Reading Book Review: ...
The Syllabus of Errors by Ashley Stokes is an intelligent, melancholy short story collection that could have benefited from more tonal variety. Nonetheless, the stories that are here are first-rate. ...
A universe of robots, sentient planets and reviews of non-existent books: Wojciech Orlinski on the amazing literary legacy of Polish science fiction master Stanisław Lem. Continue Reading Stanisław ...
The level of ambition along with the sheer number of characters in Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic could drive the reader straight to frantically sketching family trees, but where many multi-generational novels ...
For book-lovers everywhere, Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Suffolk, offers the most comprehensive of all literary events in the world. We take a look at the must-see performers and shows. ...
