2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (78+ words) Any cop?: Clara and Christina is, very literally, a literary novel and the references to Iris Murdoch are a guide to what to expect: entertaining erudition and an intelligence that is as interested in relationships as philosophical discussion. Red Sheet…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (348+ words) The End of Everything by M John Harrison is strange, beautifully written and unsettling book. The novel takes its place in post-apocalyptic literary canon, while bringing a new, disturbing angle to the genre. “The City of London, puzzled and defeated,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (95+ words) “All of us live with a huge blind spot before our eyes, meaning that no matter what we think we know we can never fully understand how we appear to others. This was true for Artie Dam.” Any Cop?: It’s…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (310+ words) “And look, she was managing fine. She tried to ignore her discomfort at working for a huge corporation, her overwhelm at its size, her disappointment at how little work she had to do, the way she felt hyper self-conscious at…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (208+ words) It may be – if you’re the kind of person who trawls Netflix looking for the latest truecrime documentary – that you are already aware (aware in forensic detail) of the story of Alex Murdaugh. If you’re not (I wasn’t before I…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (95+ words) Any Cop?: Without having got my mitts on a copy of Other Worlds Than These yet, and despite not enjoying it as much as I once did, if you consider yourself a Constant Reader and you want to be in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (102+ words) A year ago we reviewed Hélène Bessette’s novella Lili is Crying and noted that we’d like to see more of the same – well, lo and behold, here we are, with Twenty Minutes of Silence, an equivalently odd and oddly compelling…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (569+ words) In carefully considered and pertinent prose, the author muses on the connection the women forged as well as expectations and misconceptions. The writing is intense and evocative, a powerful depiction of time spent together doing mostly ordinary activities. Food eaten…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (498+ words) Contrapposto (or ‘counterpoise’) is an art term deriving from the Greek describing the stance of a human figure bearing most of its weight on one foot so that the hips and shoulders tilt in opposite directions. One of the best-known…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (450+ words) Although written as fiction the tale is inspired by historical facts. It is unclear if ongoing issues described continue, although this does seem likely given the typically human arrogance of trying to harness and then control such a carrier. The…...