In its sensuous immediacy, the world, its fields, hills, mountains, streams, seas and many skies, heat and cold, wet and dry, its secret past unfolds. This world, this mind holds ...
Are marriage and independence mutually exclusive? Explored through Jane Austen’s Emma and Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline. Continue Reading Are Marriage and Independence Mutually Exclusive?
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A foetus feels like a new narrative perspective – but, in the space of a year, three foetus-narrated novels have arrived at once. Continue Reading A Womb With ...
Austin Wright’s tricksy novel Tony & Susan didn’t make much of a splash in 1993 – but now Tom Ford has given it the Hollywood treatment. Continue ...
For fans of speculative fiction and “London” novels, Neville’s second novel arrives right on time. Continue Reading A Hollowed-Out London: Resolution Way by Carl Neville
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Britain is experiencing an extraordinary renaissance in nature writing. But are writers capable of responding to environmental uncertainty? Continue Reading Falling or Jumping?: The Dark Heart of ...
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 ...
Melbourne writer Venita Munir interviews Calexico co-founder and drummer John Convertino. Continue Reading Conjuring a Sense of Place: Interview with Calexico’s John Convertino
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Marta Pérez-Carbonell profiles the best works of Spanish fiction yet to be translated into English. Continue Reading The 10 Best Untranslated Spanish Novels
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Agualusa’s novel is an episodic, poetic and raw treatment of Angolan independence. Continue Reading Filtered Truth: A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
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The last time I wrote, my uncle was dying. Continue Reading On Culture: All the Deaths are the Same
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One can’t help but leave Pamuk’s novel feeling a little disconcerted. Continue Reading Life Is Like This: A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
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I want to press this book aggressively into people’s hands. But its language, its length and the inclinations of its central character all call for restraint. Continue ...
Xenobe Purvis on Chinese novel about totalitarian madness: the third of her Man Booker International Prize reviews. Continue Reading The Ministry of Truth: The Four Books by Yian ...
This debut novel by diplomat Guillermo Erades is a notable addition to the modern flâneur canon. Continue Reading Review: Back to Moscow by Guillermo Erades
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It is spring, and the cherry trees are flowering. It’s the wrong time of year for dying. Continue Reading On Culture: Death Out of Season
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Xenobe Purvis reviews Elena Ferrante’s contender for the Man International Booker Prize. Continue Reading Story of an Erasure: The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
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In the run-up to the Man International Booker Prize announcement on May 16, Xenobe Purvis will be reviewing each of the sixth shortlisted books. First, The Vegetarian by South Korea’s ...
Samuel Nello on the secrets of these most special of places. Continue Reading At My Local Library
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Given the amount of critical coverage of the Baileys Prize for Fiction in recent years, the response to this year’s shortlist has been somewhat muted. Which is surprising, writes Eleanor ...
