Jessica Payn

Articles By Jessica Payn

Margarita García Robayo: Holiday Heart review – understated and acute Sunday, 14 June 2020 Read more...	Maria Reva: Good Citizens Need Not Fear review - tales of gloomy humour and absurdist charm Tuesday, 19 May 2020 Read more...
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld: The Discomfort of Evening review - lovelessness, loneliness, bodies and their limits Sunday, 03 May 2020 Read more...	Olivia Laing: Funny Weather review - essays on art, framed as antidote Sunday, 12 April 2020 Read more...
Fitzcarraldo Editions wins Republic of Consciousness Prize Tuesday, 31 March 2020 Read more...	Jenny Offill: Weather review - the low hum of misgiving Sunday, 09 February 2020 Read more...
Kapka Kassabova: To the Lake review - Macedonia's lacustrine heart Sunday, 02 February 2020 Read more...	Ilya Kaminsky: Deaf Republic - silence as 'a soul's noise' Sunday, 19 January 2020 Read more...
Elizabeth Strout: Olive, Again review - compassion, honesty and community Sunday, 01 December 2019 Read more...	Irenosen Okojie: Nudibranch review - daring and surreal Sunday, 10 November 2019 Read more...
Sarah Hall: Sudden Traveller review - lyrical and luminous Sunday, 27 October 2019 Read more...	José Eduardo Agualusa: The Society of Reluctant Dreamers review - vivid visions towards a free Angola Sunday, 01 September 2019 Read more...
The Collection: Nina Leger trans. Laura Francis - daring, direct and richly imagined Sunday, 11 August 2019 Read more...

How do they do it? Bach and Angela Hewitt, I mean, transfixing and...

“Build the wall!” exhorted Trump, at rally after rally back in the days when we’d all acknowledged his moral repugnancy but still believed he...

This fifth feature from...

Death in Her Hands was a forgotten manuscript, the product of a...

The former slave, and coachman on a sugar plantation, began one of his early public proclamations in a typically defiant vein: “I am Toussaint...

Ian Williams’s writing is always in motion. For his 2012 poetry...

Clearly it takes peculiar circumstances for some of us to hear the Academy of St Martin in the Fields within its eponymous church – that’s a first...

The Girls, Emma Cline’s acclaimed debut novel of 2016, was billed as a story based on the Manson murders. But in fact, like some of the...

Alongside Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada were one of the last big acts to blossom from the...

Before his retirement last summer at the age of 90, Bernard Haitink worked magic on the podium, no one is in any doubt about that. Lining up one...