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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Deep inside the Gloucester Road apartment where the Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante resided from 1967 until his death in 2005, the visitor finds a majestic landscape.
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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 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 ...
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s dystopian screed against anti-intellectualism and the sinister influence of popular culture, is an all too appropriate tome for the Age of Trump. Continue Reading ...
Swing Time, an outlier in Zadie Smith’s oeuvre, is stylistically interesting, socially aware, funny and wise. Continue Reading Dreaming of Home: Swing Time by Zadie Smith
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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 ...
Can a film adaptation of a beloved read ever live up to its source material? Continue Reading The Book Is Better
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Samuel Nello on the secrets of these most special of places. Continue Reading At My Local Library
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