The Dead Are Arising won a National Book Award in the US last year, and it is certainly a monumental act of biographical reconstruction. Perhaps its monumental status is part ...
There’s a certain aptness in reviewing a book entitled The Digital Critic for an online publication: although Litro isn’t explicitly cited in the book, this is exactly the sort of ...
It’s easy to read the short stories in this anthology in dialogue with one another, as they explore what it means to be unspeakable.
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Roy’s follow-up to her Booker-winning sensation The God of Small Things has been twenty years in the making.
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Camilla Whitehill’s debut play is short, but it sure packs a hell of a punch.
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These two refreshing, unconventional adaptations exemplify the wonder of the London Film Festival, writes Eleanor Franzén.
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This exploration of Victorian responses to the telegraph is wonderfully thought-provoking, writes Eleanor Franzén.
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Eleanor Franzén is a lit fest sceptic. So what happened when she attended her first?
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For a play about a suicidal woman, Terence Rattigan’s play is remarkably funny.
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The last time I wrote, my uncle was dying.
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It is spring, and the cherry trees are flowering. It’s the wrong time of year for dying.
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Given the amount of critical coverage of the Baileys Prize for Fiction in recent years, the response to this year’s shortlist has been somewhat muted. Which is surprising, writes Eleanor ...
Given the amount of critical coverage of the Baileys Prize for Fiction in recent years, the response to this year’s shortlist has been somewhat muted. Which is surprising, writes Eleanor ...
Hubert, a graphic novel by Belgium’s Ben Gijsemans, depicts a lonely human finding solace in art but unable to connect to another human, even one as lonely as he is.
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It didn’t occur to me until last Christmas, as I hugged my family goodbye in Washington’s Dulles Airport, that there might have been a better reason for my mother’s adherence ...
Florence Keith-Roach’s Eggs, which has just finished its run at the VAULT Festival, is the mark of an impressive talent.
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It took ten minutes—probably less—for In the Night Time (Before the Sun Rises), Nina Segal’s debut play about the ethics of parenthood, to break my heart.
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As Penguin announces the publication of a newly discovered Beatrix Potter manuscript, Eleanor Franzén looks at the surprisingly sinister forces at work in the beloved author’s tales.
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Internet book reviews are a wonderful thing. But if you’re going to write a review, writes Eleanor Franzen, there are a few ground rules that you ought to follow.
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In the publishing world, only one thing can compete with the excitement of the end-of-year book list: the most-anticipated list.
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