The year is 2022. Israel is no more. Having been annexed by its hostile neighbouring countries, its citizens are now global refugees, many of them relocating to the States….. ...
Jarrar’s work is part of the “New Wave” of fiction addressing the contemporary refugee crisis. Continue Reading Book Review: An Unsafe Haven by Nada Awar Jarrar
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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 ...
I so desperately want to love this book and much like bumping into Catherine Zeta-Jones in a hotel lobby, I want it to love me back instantly, thus sealing our ...
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? ...
By the book’s end, the line between dying for attention and murder is blurred. Continue Reading Book Review: The Girls by Emma Cline
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Louise Erdrich, in her new novel, LaRose, intertwines the use of simple prose and multi-vocal story telling to create a vibrant and compelling narrative. Continue Reading Book Review: ...
One hot, black midnight in El Salvador a woman answered her phone. “We are going to kill your son,” the voice on the other end informed her. The marked man ...
Unthank Books’ latest collection of short stories has a little something for everyone. Continue Reading Review: Unthology 6
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This masterful follow-up to 2011’s Exit Through The Wound flits through San Francisco and Los Angeles in a savage satire of the ultra-rich and ultra-bored. Continue Reading Book ...
An appealing and immersive portrait of the modern writer, and the many different ways people perceive the world. Continue Reading Book Review: Outline by Rachel Cusk
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A platoon of great essayists invades Planet Sci-Fi, documenting the fashions, ideas and anxieties of the greatest films in the genre. Continue Reading Book Review: Days of Fear ...
A fascinating series of essays bringing together singers, songwriters, bands, performers, A&R men, producers and audiences into the whirling gumbo of rock ‘n’ roll. Continue Reading Book Review: ...
Recently published for the first time in English, Gonzalez’s debut is an evocative and well-crafted novel that touches poignantly on the dilemmas of mental trauma and physical abandonment. ...
A profoundly moral novel, this is literature as it should be: challenging, tender and lacerating. Continue Reading Book Review: Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas
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Alison Moore’s follow-up to the Booker Prize shortlisted The Lighthouse walks a tightrope between tragedy-cum-thriller and deadpan comedy — and doesn’t fall. Continue Reading Book Review: He Wants ...
This collection of fifty true stories proves essential summer reading. Continue Reading Anthology: The Moth: This is a True Story
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Are our increasingly interconnected real and online lives a slow march towards totalitarianism or a renewal of democracy? David Eggers’ novel offers one such vision of the near future. ...
A career’s-worth of Patrick Keiller’s essays have been gathered together in The View from the Train. It’s a mixed bag but vital, finds Bea Moyes. Continue Reading Book ...
