3+ week, 3+ hour ago  (890+ words) When Jim Jarmusch won the Golden Lion at last year's Venice film festival, it came as something of a surprise. The best film award had been widely expected to go to the emotionally demanding The Voice of Hind Rajab, not…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (245+ words) Is this person dead? It's a wise question to ask yourself when reading George Saunders. In his Booker Prize-winning Lincoln in the Bardo, the answer doesn't arrive until page three, where the narrator first mentions his confinement in a "sick…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (627+ words) I was not a bad man. Nowhere near it. But they said I was anyway. Makenna Goodman's second novel (her first, The Shame, a brilliant exploration of motherhood, came out in 2020) is, on the surface, an account of a cancellation,…...

8+ mon, 6+ day ago  (539+ words) Two chimney sweeps sit by a window. The boss (Thorbj'rn Harr) recounts a dream meeting with David Bowie, who disconcertingly looks at him like he's a woman. Funny thing, his friend (Jar Gunnar R'ise) replies. Yesterday, a male client asked…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (424+ words) Love was the Norwegian climax of Dag Johan Haugerud's Oslo trilogy, the most lovestruck vision of his city and boldest prophesy of how to live there, beyond borders and bonds of sexual identity and shame. Released here between Dreams' meta-memories…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (544+ words) Rising temperatures, prickling skin, longing's all-consuming ache: first love's swooning symptoms overtake 17-year-old Johanne (Ella "verbye) in the Golden Bear-winning Dreams, the first UK release from Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud's Oslo Stories trilogy. Love and Sex complete the thematically…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (503+ words) As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories, Mark Gatiss is no stranger to enigmatic crimes and bizarre occurrences set in carefully-recreated versions of the past. He revisits similar themes in Bookish, his new series about a…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (855+ words) Having played Sherlock Holmes's politically involved older brother Mycroft in the BBC's hit crime series Sherlock, Mark Gatiss may not be an obvious candidate to now follow in the footsteps of the famous detective. But with his new murder'mystery series…...