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Tag: Book Review

Wolfskin by Lara Moreno, translated by Katie Whittemore: a review and extract

6th March 20226th March 2022  Elodie Rose Barnes

Close but uneasy family ties form the backbone of this extraordinary, poetic, and refreshingly honest novel by Lara Moreno.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Katie Whittemore, Lara Moreno, novel extract, Structo Press, translated fiction, Wolfskin

The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft

12th November 202112th November 2021  Rym Kechacha

Rym Kechacha reviews The Books of Jacob: a wonderful, huge and complex book that asks the reader to “turn our gaze away from the simple”, and instead embrace flux, transformation, and narrative that “sprawls like a great tree’s roots”.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Jennifer Croft, Olga Tokarczuk, Polish literature, The Books of Jacob, translated fiction

Interview with poet Emily Cooper: ‘I’m obsessed with recording memories and stories’

14th September 202117th September 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Barnes talks to Emily Cooper about her debut collection Glass: poems which shift and reflect on the ideas of home as architectural space, home as memory space, permanence, impermanence, and the ‘ownership’ of stories.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Book Review, Emily Cooper, Glass, Interview, Makina Books, Poetry, poetry collection

Locating the ‘new’ in The New Abject: Tales of Modern Unease

15th August 202115th August 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

This exhilarating anthology of short stories challenges us to look beyond the shiny façade of ‘the new’ and to embrace ‘the abject’ – the ambiguous, the old, the distressing parts of ourselves and our society – and to ask what place the abject should have in our culture today.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: anthology, Book Review, Comma Press, Georges Bataille, Julia Kristeva, Ra Page, Sarah Eyre, Short Stories, Tales of Modern Unease, the abject, The New Abject

Ways of Living by Gemma Seltzer: powerful and deeply human

28th July 202128th July 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Shamini Sriskandarajah reviews this debut collection of London-based short stories, full of vivid, colourful characters and with a joyfully feminist streak.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Gemma seltzer, Influx Press, London, Short Stories, Ways of Living

The Limits of My Language: Meditations on Depression – an intellectual exploration of the personal at an arm’s length

21st June 202122nd June 2021  Jennifer Brough

Eva Meijer’s richly referenced musings illustrate the gaps in language when trying to distil the depressive experience.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Antoinette Fawcett, Book Review, Books in translation, depression, Eva Meijer, Language, Mental Health, Pushkin Press

In Memory of Memory: the fragmented story of a family’s century

17th June 202122nd June 2021  Shamini Sriskandarajah

Maria Stepanova’s memoir, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale, weaves together storytelling, culture, art, and philosophy to form a mosaic image of her family’s history.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, family history, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Maria Stepanova, memoir, memory, Russian literature, Sasha Dugdale

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: an interview with Katherine Angel

9th June 20219th June 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

In her new book, Katherine Angel explores the nuances and complexities of consent, female desire, and vulnerability in a post #MeToo world, and asks whether explicit consent really does make sex good again.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Book Review, Consent, female desire, Katherine Angel, sexual assault, sexual politics, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, Verso Books

Self Portrait in Green: a slippery snapshot of a search for self

7th June 20217th June 2021  Jennifer Brough

Marie NDiaye’s hazy novella, translated by Jordan Stump, unsettles the reader as much as the narrator in a mysterious memoir of strange encounters.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: autofiction, Book Review, Books in translation, Influx Press, Jordan Stump, Marie NDiaye, novella, Self Portrait in Green

Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge: surreal and bizarrely beautiful

31st May 202131st May 2021  Yen Ooi

Yan Ge’s novel, translated by Jeremy Tiang, is a fantastical exploration of life, love, relationships, and the beast-like nature of humans.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, Fiction, Jeremy Tiang, Strange Beasts of China, Tilted Axis Press, Yan Ge

Two Latin American detective novels: turning the genre inside out

26th May 202131st May 2021  Selin Genc

Havana Year Zero by Karla Suárez, and Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro: two new translated books from Charco Press that are quirky, poignant, and very relevant for our times.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, Charco Press, Christina Macsweeney, Claudia Piñeiro, Frances Riddle, Karla Suárez, Latin American literature

The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts

22nd January 201923rd January 2019  Ishita Ranjan

After the mysterious disappearance of a toddler, past events involving siblings Laurel and Primrose resurface. Our arts contributor, Ishita Ranjan, reviews Alice Clark-Platts’ gripping crime thriller, The Flower Girls.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Alice Clark-Platts, Bloomsbury Fiction, Book Review, Crime, Fiction, Raven Books, The Flower Girls, Thriller
  • As I Fall Apart by Oriana Rose, with illustrations by Natasha Natarajan
    By Umang Kalra
  • To Avantisundari & other poems by Sanjukta Dasgupta
    By Sanjukta Dasgupta
  • The Essay, The Object and The Re-mix: de-centring the human in The Opposite of a Person by Lieke Marsman review
    By Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie
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