These poems and prose poems are not simply love letters to loyal companions; instead the reader is presented with Blakeian explorations into perspectives: the points of view of animals, their ...
Meet you. You are the hero of Mr. Either/Or, a story told in second person, which creates the feel of a choose-your-own-adventure novel. Continue Reading The Epic Poetry ...
Our narrator, Robert, is a killer. An unintentional killer at that, but still a killer. Continue Reading Book Review: Every Fox Is a Rabid Fox, by Harry ...
I was attracted to this collection because of the title and the strikingly simple cover design. I like themed collections and I wondered how the author would handle the study ...
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 ...
Manhattan Beach is a novel bonded with the sea: from an epigraph by Melville (‘meditation and the water are wedded for ever’) to symbols of light, dark, and depth, Egan’s ...
The past few years have seen, once again, a growth and movement behind nationalism. From the cries to ‘take back our country’, the rejection of globalism for protectionism, to Brexit ...
In Sophie Hopesmith’s debut novel, Another Justified Sinner, commodities trader Marcus aims to get square with God. Continue Reading Book Review: Another Justified Sinner, by Sophie Hopesmith
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A brilliantly observed examination of choices and consequences, of why we act as we do and of just how similar we all are.
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“Back when my parents and I lived in Bushwick in a building sandwiched between a drug house and another drug house, the only difference being that the dangers in one ...
War and loneliness shimmer poetically through the petri-dishes and green fluorescent protein, and science with its lovely gadgetry, specimens and syntax; its labs full of lonely researchers, wins hands down ...
It’s easy to read the short stories in this anthology in dialogue with one another, as they explore what it means to be unspeakable. Continue Reading Something Unspoken: ...
It’s the sort of stuff you see but do not notice: in the gutter or down the back of a sofa, in the pocket of an old pair of trousers ...
In the beginning Samuel Orr and Anna Stuart, two of the main protagonists of this novel, have nonchalant sex in Belfast. Lots of nonchalant sex. On the sly. In her ...
The beating heart of these poems is music, not least because of the poet’s own cross-genre creative output and a song’s uncanny ability to situate the reader immediately in a ...
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….. ...
Both of these novels explore Jewish identity and the diaspora – with All the Rivers, about the relationship between an Israeli woman and Palestinian man the book, banned in Israeli ...
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 ...
