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BOOK REVIEW: PINA

Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Pina, which won the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize, is a rebuke of the romanticised ideals of Tahiti and its ...

by Katy Ward | August 18, 2022August 15, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THE MISSING WORD

De Gregorio interrogates the classic missing person mystery and finds a deeper mystery hidden within – that of missing identity, Continue Reading BOOK ...

by Robert Montero | August 15, 2022August 15, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations

BOOK REVIEW: THE FORGERY

Art doesn’t just provide discrete instances of ways of seeing the world, alternative encounters with it into which we can enter while looking at a ...

by Ben Philipps | July 28, 2022July 29, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THE FAMILIA GRANDE

We tend to think of guilt as having a straight-forward relationship with wrong-doing. We are taught that if you do something wrong, you will feel ...

by Andy Charman | July 22, 2022July 22, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, short story

BOOK REVIEW: HERE BE ICEBERGS

Katya Adaui sexamines the tangled knot of everyday ties that bind us – for better or worse. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: HERE ...

by Jennifer Brough | July 14, 2022July 6, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Translations

BOOK REVIEW: THE MEMBRANES

In the 22nd century, humanity has scorched the earth. Attempts to undo the catastrophic results of global warming have proved futile, and a new kind ...

by Eleanor Keisman | July 7, 2022July 18, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THE BIRTH OF EMMA K.

The uncertainty at the core of these stories seems endless. The only thing that we can take for granted is that nothing can be taken ...

by John Riley | June 30, 2022June 24, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Reviews, Uncategorised

BOOK REVIEW: SOLO DANCE

In ‘Solo Dance’, by Li Kotomi, Japan – Asia’s most advanced country – is described as a “queer desert.” Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: ...

by Kevin McGeary | June 23, 2022June 26, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: LINEA NIGRA

Linea Nigra is a journey into an elsewhere and a valuable documentation of self-transformation. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: LINEA NIGRA

by Jennifer Brough | June 16, 2022May 27, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Fiction, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THREE

Perrin has a beautiful talent for capturing the atmosphere of small-town France Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THREE

by Andy Charman | June 9, 2022May 27, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THIS WORLD DOES NOT BELONG TO US

A warped subversion of childhood that excavates the depths of human cruelty. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THIS WORLD DOES NOT BELONG TO US ...

by Alexandra Cocksworth | June 2, 2022May 27, 2022
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews, Literature

Interview with Natalie Garcia Freire

From her home in the Andes, Ecuadorian author Natalie Garcia Freire discusses religion, ecology and feminism, with Litro’s Book Review editor Jane Downs. Freire’s latest ...

by Jane Downs | June 2, 2022May 27, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: MISTER N

A complex, beautiful, poetic and disturbing mediation on human existence. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: MISTER N

by Tamar Drukker | May 26, 2022May 16, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS

if there are two fearsome things lurking in the collective psyche of young Japanese minds today, it is surely having children, and moving to the ...

by Christopher Redpath | May 19, 2022May 6, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: PEOPLE OF BLOOMINGTON

English-readers can at last explore the upside-down worlds of the great Budi Darma. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: PEOPLE OF BLOOMINGTON

by Atika Shubert | May 12, 2022May 6, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: SONG FOR THE MISSING

A story of loneliness and dislocation that celebrates the art of story-telling. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: SONG FOR THE MISSING

by KMA Ramsay | May 5, 2022April 29, 2022
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: MONSTERS LIKE US

“Monsters Like Us” explores the violence human beings inflict on one another, and though pervaded by melancholy, it offers some hope for a better future. ...

by Fiona Graham | April 28, 2022April 22, 2022
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: YOU HAVE NOT YET BEEN DEFEATED: SELECTED WORKS 2011-2021

Abd El-Fattah is one of Egypt’s most prominent activists and has spent years in prison. Yet as his writing makes clear, the only path to ...

by Ben Philipps | April 21, 2022April 25, 2022
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THE OLD WOMAN AND THE KNIFE

Gu weaves together the gripping and sometimes heartbreaking tales of a contract killer trying to outrun her past. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE ...

by Eleanor Keisman | April 14, 2022April 9, 2022
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Literature, Reviews

BOOK REVIEW: THE WONDERS

Every part of our lives becomes a story one day Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE WONDERS

by Jillian Pincus | April 7, 2022April 5, 2022

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