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BOOK REVIEW: 19 CLAWS AND A BLACK BIRD: STORIES

Written in her deliciously dark tone, Bazterrica’s claws puncture polite society’s fragile membrane, revealing the darkness writhing beneath. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: 19 CLAWS AND A BLACK BIRD: ...

by Jennifer Brough • June 8, 2023June 8, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: LAST HOUSE BEFORE THE MOUNTAIN

A haunting family saga about love, family, and the often unconsidered victims of war. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: LAST HOUSE BEFORE THE MOUNTAIN

by Raphaela Behounek • May 18, 2023May 25, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: WAR DIARY

The images of Ukraine follow a familiar beat: unjustified mass violence, the corpses of victims, ravished buildings. Yevgenia Belorusets created a diary of the first few months of war, but ...

by Christina Obolenskaya • April 6, 2023April 6, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: STOLEN

It is one thing to lose something, but quite another to have had it stolen. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: STOLEN

by Barbara Wheatley • March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: RIVER SPIRIT

A sense of inevitability pervades “River Spirit ” as seven narrators negotiate the personal, political and religious challenges of Sudan in the late nineteenth century. Continue Reading BOOK ...

by Anna Hattersley • March 23, 2023March 24, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: ALL YOUR CHILDREN, SCATTERED

A story that crosses four generations of a family, “All Your Children, Scattered” looks at how communication breaks down, and how it might be repaired. Continue Reading BOOK ...

by Adam Ley-Lange • March 9, 2023March 10, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: SIBLINGS

As a relatively young author, Brigitte Reimann imbued the novel with her convictions and enthusiasm for the work that her generation was doing to rebuild a post-war Germany that was ...

by Francesca Ferrauto • March 2, 2023March 5, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: SALT CRYSTALS

An uncompromising new voice from San Andres that describes a magical, transcendent place. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: SALT CRYSTALS

by Jackie Morris • February 16, 2023February 16, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOUR LINE

Scego blends Italy’s contentious past and present, unearthing the layers beneath Rome’s glittering surface. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOUR LINE

by Noreen Kane • February 9, 2023February 9, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: BODY KINTSUGI

A novel which effortlessly transcends the banality of categorisation to tell the story of a body and its struggle to feel whole. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: BODY KINTSUGI

by Jennifer Brough • January 12, 2023January 11, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: WELL-KEPT RUINS

Cixous explores the liminal space between fiction and fact, memory and history, novel and memoir.  Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: WELL-KEPT RUINS

by Zadie Loft • December 29, 2022December 29, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: THE THORN PULLER

Ito’s talent for weaving many voices is brilliantly demonstrated in this newly translated work. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE THORN PULLER

by Elizabeth Meehan • December 1, 2022November 28, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: THE AGE OF DOUBT

A savage and touching exploration of the realities of life in post-civil-war Korea Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE AGE OF DOUBT

by Katy Ward • November 26, 2022November 28, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: DAUGHTERS BEYOND COMMAND

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 ...

by Monica Cardenas • November 10, 2022October 21, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: THE AGE OF GOODBYES

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

by Christopher Redpath • November 3, 2022October 21, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: THE CENSOR’S NOTEBOOK

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 ...

by Barbora Cernusakova • October 20, 2022October 12, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: GETTING LOST

Getting Lost leaves one submerged in Ernaux’s world, gasping for breath, and fighting for reason. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: GETTING LOST

by Ingrid Petty • October 13, 2022October 11, 2022

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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 REVIEW: THE MISSING WORD

by Robert Montero • August 15, 2022August 15, 2022

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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 painting or TV show. Rather, ...

by Ben Philipps • July 28, 2022July 29, 2022

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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