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Simon Alderwick reviews: AGIMAT by Romalyn Ante, Small Undetectable Thefts by Yanita Georgieva and All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath
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Nov 47 min read
Paper trails of pleasure
In 2003, when she was diagnosed with cancer, Annie Ernaux found that she could not write.
Nov 314 min read
Caging Kafka
Kafka’s protagonists, both human and animal, often find themselves caged.
Oct 306 min read
HOW TO SPUR THE MOMENT
Hourani’s poetry is as meditative as it is proactive: it finds in the poet’s prerogative to organise a method of resistance.
Oct 126 min read
Sally Rooney in Captivity
Sally Rooney’s new book wriggles under new (and old) constraints.
Oct 36 min read
In Pursuit of Nothing
Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon, had knockout feet. Few who saw them in action would deny it.
Sep 38 min read
In Review: Meg Kim, Invisible Cartographies (New Delta Review, 2024)
Kim’s debut chapbook Invisible Cartographies, published September 2024 by New Delta Review, is perhaps a collection of thundereggs.
Aug 247 min read
Pimping unfinished business: Elias Canetti's "The Book Against Death"
Elias Canetti asks if language is the barrier to understanding some kind of universal mortality.
Apr 57 min read
"Splinters": The Opposite of a Cocktail-Party
Leslie Jamison’s Splinters was released at the end of February to enormous fanfare.
Mar 208 min read
Minor Details, Major Insights
Under the sombre sky of a rainy city centre, vibrant flags in black, red, green, and white hues stood out distinctly
Mar 108 min read
Adventure in Solitude
...as she bore both a personal and reportorial witness to the labour of “dying, when one loves life so much.”
Dec 3, 20236 min read
Which Way, Western Man?
Rushdie and Shatz merge in their interest in cosmopolitanism and exile, in the fact of finding oneself between identities...
Nov 28, 20236 min read
Human Wrongs, Animal Rights?
‘We expect extinction after people arrive on an island…survival is the exception.’
Nov 27, 20237 min read
History as it Should Have Been
Truths needn’t always depend upon facts for their expression’. So says Tom Crewe, in the Afterword to The New Life.
Nov 25, 20237 min read
Electra Complex
‘We paint our toenails red, though we put shoes on our feet so no one will see our flashy toes.'
Oct 26, 20235 min read
Above All Else: Desire in Maggie Millner
Love poetry is a risky business. Maggie Millner in her debut Couplets: A Love Story (2023) seems all too aware of this.
Oct 21, 20239 min read
New Caribbean Realism
The original function of the novel, V.S. Naipaul once suggested, was to give us news: to provide society with a very clear idea of itself.
Oct 17, 20234 min read
Song of Summer
As we read through Sensitive to Temperature, it becomes clear that the relationships therein are indeed sensitive to temperature.
Oct 7, 20235 min read
Sharing Space: The House on Via Gemito
SARAH MOORHOUSE - Both Starnone and Ferrante are interested in our imperfect understanding of others.
Oct 5, 20237 min read
In the Manner of a Genius: Reviewing Courtauld's Forgery Exhibition
PHILIPPA CONLON - ‘Imitation’, we are told, ‘is the sincerest form of flattery’.
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