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A foetus feels like a new narrative perspective – but, in the space of a year, three foetus-narrated novels have arrived at once.
Austin Wright’s tricksy novel Tony & Susan didn’t make much of a splash in 1993 – but now Tom Ford has given it the Hollywood treatment.
Florian Zeller’s latest is a play for our post-fact, Brexity age.
Agualusa’s novel is an episodic, poetic and raw treatment of Angolan independence.
One can’t help but leave Pamuk’s novel feeling a little disconcerted.
I want to press this book aggressively into people’s hands. But its language, its length and the inclinations of its central character all call for restraint.
Xenobe Purvis on Chinese novel about totalitarian madness: the third of her Man Booker International Prize reviews.
Xenobe Purvis reviews Elena Ferrante’s contender for the Man International Booker Prize.
Sitting in Notting Hill’s Print Room, watching Deathwatch on the thirtieth anniversary of Genet’s death, Xenobe Purvis couldn’t help but wonder: what would Genet have made of this production?
Xenobe Purvis reviews Julian Barnes’s impressionistic biography of Dmitri Shostakovich, his first novel since 2011’s Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending.
While Owen Sheers’ verse drama about soldiers in Afghanistan has a troubling tendency to tell rather than show, it has moments of real poignancy.
Xenobe Purvis looks at how Florian Zeller’s The Mother, currently at the Tricycle Theatre, and Lenny Abrahamson’s film Room portray both the joy and claustrophobia of motherhood.
Ibsen is considered a father figure for today’s realist theatre. But this canonisation loses sight of the originality of his voice, argues Xenobe Purvis.
How does Joe Hill-Gibbins’ bold new production of Measure For Measure deal with Shakespeare’s “problem play”? Unproblematically, says Xenobe Purvis.
This year, the great Japanese theatre director Yukio Ninagawa turns eighty. Xenobe Purvis reviews two of his productions at the Barbican