book reviews and features
10 Questions for Poet and Critic Rebecca Tamás
Tuesday, 20 October 2020
Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman is a powerful invitation to rethink, to doubt and to engage. Beginning among the Diggers’ tilled earth in 1649 and the eco-socialist "... Read more... |
Daniel Saldaña Paris: Ramifications review – chaos reigns in contemporary Mexico
Monday, 19 October 2020
The majority of Daniel Saldaña París’s latest novel spurs from a single act, committed during the height of summer, in ... Read more... |
The Secret History of My Library: Essay by Daniel Saldaña París
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Books lost, left in houses I never returned to; dictionaries mislaid during a move; seven boxes sold to a second-hand bookstore… The history of my library is the history of loss and an impossible... Read more... |
Dolly Alderton: Ghosts review - a love story beyond romance
Tuesday, 13 October 2020
There’s something simultaneously cringey and also addictive about Dolly Alderton’s prose. Ghosts is definitely... Read more... |
Richard J Evans: The Hitler Conspiracies review – Nazi myths debunked
Monday, 12 October 2020
In the days when crowds still thronged airport bookshops, any work entitled The Hitler Conspiracies would surely leap off the shelves. This one ought to flourish in our more immobile... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Sally Anne Gross and Dr George Musgrave, authors of 'Can Music Make You Sick?'
Saturday, 10 October 2020
Today is World Mental Health Day and of course that means an awful lot of hugs and homilies, thoughts and prayers, deep-breathing exercises and it’s-good-to-talk platitudes from people speaking... Read more... |
Book extract: Snake by Erica Wright
Thursday, 08 October 2020
Ophidiophobia is one of our most common fears, from the Greek for serpent ('Ophidia'). Writer and editor Erica Wright grew up in Tennessee with periodic interruptions from rattlesnakes,... Read more... |
Hermione Lee: Tom Stoppard, A Life review - the last word on a theatrical wordsmith
Wednesday, 07 October 2020
"The older he got, the less he cared about self-concealment," or so it is said of Sir Tom Stoppard,... Read more... |
William Boyd: Trio review - private perils in 1968
Monday, 05 October 2020
William Boyd’s fiction is populated by all manner of artists. Writers, painters, photographers, musicians and... Read more... |
John Lanchester: Reality, and Other Stories review - campfire spooks for the digital age
Wednesday, 30 September 2020
What do you do when your phone rings, but you know the person ringing isn’t alive? In many ways, the cleverly named Reality, and Other Stories is a collection of... Read more... |
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