REVIEWS 2/2

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 21, 20239 min read

As we read through Sensitive to Temperature, it becomes clear that the relationships therein are indeed sensitive to temperature.

Oct 17, 20234 min read

SARAH MOORHOUSE - Both Starnone and Ferrante are interested in our imperfect understanding of others.

Oct 7, 20235 min read

PHILIPPA CONLON - ‘Imitation’, we are told, ‘is the sincerest form of flattery’.

Oct 5, 20237 min read

Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov Gennady Barabtarlo, Princeton, 2017 ‘The most moronic fraternity in the...

Apr 17, 201713 min read

Human Flow Ai Weiwei, Amazon Studios, 2017 We are inundated with film, television, and visual arts that ‘speak to the moment’. Social and...

Apr 17, 20175 min read

Why Does Inequality Matter? T M Scanlon, Oxford University Press, 2018 Global Inequality Branko Milanovic, Harvard University Press, 2016...

Apr 17, 201711 min read

Towards the close of This Is Not a Film (2011), a despondent Jafar Panahi is cajoled by his friend and fellow filmmaker Mojtaba...

Apr 17, 20178 min read

My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown, Penguin 2017 Shortly after John Smith’s death, Gordon Brown discovered his was one of those professions...

Apr 17, 20177 min read

Lullaby Leïla Slimani, trans. by Sam Taylor, Faber and Faber, 2018 Dans le jardin de l’ogre Leïla Slimani, Gallimard, 2014 When a writer...

Feb 1, 20179 min read

HOPE SUTHERLAND - Min Jin Lee’s new novel traces the nuances of Japanese Korean issues through four generations of family life.

Apr 1, 201613 min read