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…
Several Deer by Adam Crothers
Several Deer by Adam Crothers On the first page of Several Deer, the debut collection from the Northern Irish poet…
This Living and Immortal Thing by Austin Duffy
This Living and Immortal Thing by Austin Duffy The somewhat neo-Yeatsian, almost mawkish-sounding title chosen for Austin Duffy’s first novel is…
Public Library by Ali Smith
It seems somehow wrong that I now ‘own’ my copy of Public Library, Ali Smith’s fifth collection of short stories.…
‘hypnotic delight’: Macbeth at the Young Vic
Three lunatic dollies jerk and prance in dub-step; they suck their fingers (or are they Raspberry Mivvis?), they entice and…
The Bonniest Companie by Kathleen Jamie
Walking and climbing in a landscape of clifftops, glens, summits and strands, the speaker in Kathleen Jamie’s subtle and assured…
Physical by Andrew McMillan
Physical by Andrew McMillan Andrew McMillan’s debut collection Physical opens with an epitaph taken from one of the often overlooked…
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Lauded as a subversive masterpiece, pegged as a favourite to win The Man Booker…
Happiness by Jack Underwood
Happiness by Jack Underwood ‘Sometimes your sadness is a yacht’ is the title of the fourth poem in Jack Underwood’s…
The Lobster
The Lobster If you were to be turned into an animal what animal would you choose? This question remains at…
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…
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