Sometimes, a larger-than-life bird woman is all a book needs. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: LET NO-ONE SLEEP
A savage and touching exploration of the realities of life in post-civil-war Korea Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE AGE OF DOUBT
The novel traces landmark moments in French history, from the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 to the 1981 election of President François Mitterrand. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: DAUGHTERS ...
Li reanimates the yearnings and struggles of Chinese-Malaysian women over the years, and presents a vivid sense of place. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE AGE OF GOODBYES
Several days after finishing the book, something dawned on me in a way I’ve never experienced before… a sort of quiet marvelling. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: GHOST TOWN
To what extent are we free from the “justified interventions” of invisible censors? And if we are not free from them, are we ever going to learn about it one ...
Getting Lost leaves one submerged in Ernaux’s world, gasping for breath, and fighting for reason. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: GETTING LOST
Tomb of Sand is a poet’s novel, exquisitely modern. It venerates eccentricity, laughs at its own ingenuity, and blurs borders in language and life. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: ...
While there is more travelling than arriving in this book, Van de Broeck’s compassion for her architects and their ambitions gives the book its soul. Continue Reading BOOK ...
The intimate account of a man claiming his homosexuality, embedded within the larger history of Egyptian society. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: CAPTAIN NI’MAT’S LAST BATTLE
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 golden sands. Continue ...
De Gregorio interrogates the classic missing person mystery and finds a deeper mystery hidden within – that of missing identity, Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE MISSING WORD
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 painting or TV show. Rather, ...
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 guilty and if you haven’t ...
Katya Adaui sexamines the tangled knot of everyday ties that bind us – for better or worse. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: HERE BE ICEBERGS
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 of “Noah’s Arc” has been ...
Perrin has a beautiful talent for capturing the atmosphere of small-town France Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THREE
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 countryside. Continue Reading ...
English-readers can at last explore the upside-down worlds of the great Budi Darma. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: PEOPLE OF BLOOMINGTON
A story of loneliness and dislocation that celebrates the art of story-telling. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: SONG FOR THE MISSING