The Sleepwalkers by Will Stone
Europe is a wasteland in Will Stone’s third collection The Sleepwalkers. The poet portrays the continent as ‘What’s left of…
Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck
The idea behind ‘Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck’ is an exciting one, if a little difficult to communicate in…
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”…
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…
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,…
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Lauded as a subversive masterpiece, pegged as a favourite to win The Man Booker Prize and one of the best-selling…
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…
A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
I was reading Orhan Pamuk’s Snow in London recently, when a Scottish man stopped me to say how much he’d enjoyed…
The Lobster
The Lobster If you were to be turned into an animal what animal would you choose? This question remains at…
Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks
Where my Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks In Where My Heart Used to Beat, we witness the transformation…
The Children Act by Ian McEwan
It is not practiced perfection that hits the right note in Ian McEwan’s most recent novel but the gloriously amateur, both…
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…
Virginia Woolf – Art, Life and Vision
Virginia Woolf – Art, Life and Vision Virginia Woolf viewed greatness as a “positive possession”. In her mind greatness was…
Review | Traces by Clare Best
Clare Best Traces Traces at Austrian Cultural Forum London, 3rd April – 8th June 2012. . ‘Reality is not simply…
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