There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people, human beings like anybody else. Continue Reading Book Review: Astral ...
Diaz’s poems display mesmerising images that celebrate the personal and global resilience of marginalised populations who resist and exist by cutting out a space for themselves in an occupied land; ...
This book is about Michael Stipe’s shyness, Jarvis Cocker’s brown-cord genius and Pete Burns’ left testicle peeking out from his leotard for the entire duration of a gig he did ...
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 ...
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 ...
There are many facets to a novel that will early in the work tell me whether or not I will like a book. Continue Reading Sad Little Dream: ...
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….. ...
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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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? ...
