Perrin has a beautiful talent for capturing the atmosphere of small-town France Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THREE
A warped subversion of childhood that excavates the depths of human cruelty. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THIS WORLD DOES NOT BELONG TO US
A complex, beautiful, poetic and disturbing mediation on human existence. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: MISTER N
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 ...
Gu weaves together the gripping and sometimes heartbreaking tales of a contract killer trying to outrun her past. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE OLD WOMAN AND THE KNIFE
Every part of our lives becomes a story one day Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE WONDERS
An exploration of language and identity in a quasi-dystopian landscape. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: SCATTERED ALL OVER THE EARTH
Solà’s use of sound and color is best when read out loud. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: WHEN I SING, MOUNTAINS DANCE
If being a writer is the greater height, where lower to fall than the foot of a neglected tower block? Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: MARZAHN, MON AMOUR
A chilling contribution to a sadly slim body of works that highlight the plight of women in Morocco today Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: BLOOD FEAST
Nathacha Appanah takes us on a journey through three generations of a fractured family, told from the different perspectives of a mother and her two children Continue Reading ...
Mahsa Mohebali’s novel In Case of Emergency reviewed Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
A fun and deeply cynical view of the future, Joy Williams’ new novel, Harrow, warns of the danger we face in “trashing” our world. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: ...
Poignant, almost remorseful, a short essay of long thoughts. Continue Reading THE METAMORPHOSIS OF MOTHER
In response to the well-known fact that women remain under-represented generally across the film industry, a competition designed to encourage more women in film journalism has been announced by Sight ...
Short story writers Helen Simpson and Michele Roberts were at the London Review of Books last Thursday to talk about “Women Writing Women”. Before contemplating the depictions ...