Difficult Cup by Isabel Galleymore
after Wu Hao’s Duke Cups The china cup is frilled at the rim like tired lace and all over it…
Lifesaving by Wes Lee
Lifesaving They don’t do it anymore, breathe into the mouth to save. We had learnt it reluctantly, lined up beside…
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
Paterson is at his best when writing about heartbreak. “The Six,” this reviewer’s favourite piece in 40 Sonnets, speaks…
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood In 2009, Ursula K. Le Guin caused something of a stir in the…
The New World by Chris Adrian & Eli Horowitz
The New World Chris Adrian & Eli Horowitz Granta, £12.99 (paperback) The New World opens grippingly by immersing the reader…
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt
Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt ‘Cheerily, then, as one making teatime conversation, she asked “do you yourself ever think of…
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury, £18.99 Reworked from an e-serial, Atwood’s latest novel is as captivating and humorous…
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen likes big books. Each one of his critically acclaimed works are weighty door-stoppers but their tangible size in…
An Interview with Calisi Press
In recent months Ferrante Fever has been catching. If you haven’t already heard of the anonymous Italian female author who’s…
Refugees by Manash Bhattacharjee
Refugees I know a thing or two about refugees – As a child I heard father say, “We were sleeping…
‘I the sculptor am the landscape’ – Barbara Hepworth’s Roots of Stone
This year London houses a major retrospective of the work of Barbara Hepworth alongside her friend and contemporary Henry Moore…
Replete by Maggie Butt
Replete Enough of beauty – I have devoured small boats curtseying at anchor, green palace-dotted hills swarming the spice-scented shore…
O Brittania Where Art Thou? An interview with Mohammad Zahoor
by Steven O’Brien This interview originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Mohammad Zahoor is a Ukraine-based British businessman and publisher of the…
Exile by Manash Bhattacharjee
Exile “I rested my mouth on your memory” ~ Yannis Ritsos, from Diaries of Exile [In the event of Greece…
Review of ‘The Trial’ at The Young Vic
‘The Trial’ at The Young Vic Rory Kinnear embodied the frantic Josef K masterfully. In this adaptation by Nick Gill,…
Evening Light
Evening Light Brave bat in a bowler hat Blood shot eyes question What time does this light Depart? The light…
Interview with Reif Larsen
American novelist Reif Larsen is the author of New York Times bestseller The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet. The…
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
The First Bad Man by Miranda July Cheryl Glickman — isolated, alone and with no true friends to speak of…
Giggles by Evdokia Charalampous
With her eyes closed she has been staring at the lamps on the ceiling for days. By now they must…
‘Just Books and Language’ – Interview with Abel Cutillas by Heather Wells
‘Just Books and Language’ – Interview with Abel Cutillas, co-owner of Llibreria Calders, Sant Antoni, Barcelona by Heather Wells Bernat…
Five Bullets for Sabeen Mahmud by Manash Bhattacharjee
“Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?” ~ Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze Sabeen had a list of crimes…
Portraits of Artists and Friends – John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent – Portraits of Artists and Friends, National Portrait Gallery 12 February – 25 May 2015 If you…
Princess Ida
Princess Ida, Finborough Theatre, Until 18th April 2015 One’s first experience of seeing a play at Finborough theatre is really rather charming.…
Into the Blue by Alison Lock
A bee is trapped behind the curtains––its silhouette circles the head of a printed flower. Edith pulls her arm free…
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