Pearl by Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage’s new translation of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl follows his energetic 2008 translation of the same anonymous poet’s Sir…
Forward Prizes for Poetry 2016: Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection – Shortlist
This year’s contenders for the Felix Dennis Prize represent an exciting new generation of poets emerging beyond the bounds of…
Faith Healer at Donmar Warehouse
Lyndsey Turner’s revival of Brian Friel’s 1979 play uses the wisdom of age to give this oft dubbed “modern masterpiece”…
No Map Could Show Them by Helen Mort
No Map Could Show Them, Mort’s second collection, explores the narratives of Victorian and modern women –mountaineers, campaigners, runners –…
Through by David Herd
David Herd begins his new collection Through with the line: ——It is possible to be precise. The wording– “it is…
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
The latest novelistic offering in Hogarth Shakespeare’s project to refashion the bard’s tales into contemporary retellings, Vinegar Girl compellingly revitalises…
The Spoils at Trafalgar Studios
Alongside a fruitful film career, it may come as a surprise that Jesse Eisenberg has time to publish a book…
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
What is ‘home’? A person? A place? A feeling of belonging? These are the questions that run through Barney Norris’s…
Painting with Light
There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in which the odious Boy Mulcaster interrogates Charles Ryder, painter and…
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The outer layer of your skin, the epidermis, replaces itself every 35 days. Become a vegetarian, better yet a vegan,…
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
What do we think of when we think of myths? For children, myths are something unquestionable and magical. They present…
Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo said in a 2012 interview with Zannab Sheikh that ‘poetry is a form of concentration’. Her latest collection,…
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri’s life has been marked by a sense of ‘suspension’. Born to Bengali immigrants but brought up in America,…
The Blade Artist by Irvine Welsh
The opening pages of The Blade Artist read like the antithetical yoking of a delicate and diaphanous Stephen Daedalus-like epiphany…
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
… And could she disentangle it, the stuff she’d seen in her mind’s eye, from the actual stuff of her…
What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
In a museful snippet-cum-travelogue published by Lenny Letter earlier this month, Helen Oyeyemi detailed the auto-didacticism that characterized her first…
Dog Run Moon by Callan Wink
Callan Wink’s debut collection of stories stands as a promising start to a fine literary career. Some of the stories…
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
The High Mountains of Portugal is not a traditional novel but instead a set of three interconnected tales that take…
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing | The Young Vic
Aoife Duffin reprises her one-woman performance for the production’s London début. In Annie Ryan’s adaptation of Eimear McBride’s 2013 novel,…
The Catch by Fiona Sampson
The cover image of Fiona Sampson’s seventh collection is bright and strange. Taken from photographer Charles Frèger’s Wilder Mann series…
The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
In keeping with the current vogue for entwining fact and fiction, Julian Barnes’s latest novel is a fictionalised account of…
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
The American West has always been home to grifters and thieves, dreamers and doers. It has been a destination for…
Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson
Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Hogarth Shakespeare has commissioned a…
Human Acts by Han Kang
Buried in the middle of Han Kang’s Human Acts is a play that, like Kang’s book, dramatises the democratic uprisings…
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