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Arts & Culture, biography, book review, Books
BOOK REVIEW: JOHANNES BRAHMS
Jan Swafford’s Johannes Brahms: A Biography reviewed
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Arts & Culture, book review, Books
BOOK REVIEW: LOVE STORIES FOR HECTIC PEOPLE
Catherine McNamara’s Love Stories for Hectic People reviewed
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Arts & Culture, book review, Books, Editor's Pick, Travel&Lifestyle
BOOK REVIEW: OF WOMEN AND SALT
Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt reviewed
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Arts & Culture, Books, Literature
Stop calling Shuggie Bain ‘bleak’; it’s reality.
Shuggie Bain lays bare the reality of poverty and inequality in this moving debut
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Arts & Culture, Books, Literature
Dima Alzayat’s Alligator and Other Stories
In Alligator and Other Stories, Dima Alzayat fuses factual events, from the lynching of a Syrian American man in 1920s Florida to the abduction of Etan Patz in 1970s New ...
Cool To Be Kind: How Covid-19 Made Niceness Hot
Image courtesy of Burberry.
Stony-faced, besuited, a long scarf draped over his shoulders like a superhero’s cape, the polished image of British footballer Marcus Rashford modelling for Burberry would ...
Arts & Culture, Travel&Lifestyle
Desperate Optimism: Staying On Trend In A Post-Fashion World
At a time when any sentient human could only feel restless despair, the new season’s trends declare us happier than ever.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Essay
Sweatpants Won’t Set Us Free: Who Gets To Dress Down In A Post-Covid World?
As our year of lockdown living draws to an end, there is a groundswell of opinion that terry towel trousers might stick around post-pandemic, becoming as acceptable to wear on ...
#EssaySaturday, Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, Essay
How fantasy literature and media can benefit our mental health
What if fantasy literature and media can be beneficial for our mental health, alongside being a huge amount of fun?
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Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick, Essay
A Worldly Chronology of the Naked Nationalism of the Shambolic Vaccine
A global account of the vaccine rollout and mishaps so far.
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BOOK REVIEW: Elizabeth Baines’ “Astral Travel”
There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people: human beings like anybody else. And yet they never quite lose the godlike ...
Litro Lab 2021 Podcast Competition
Entries are now open for the 2021 Litro Lab podcast competition!
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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Travel&Lifestyle
BOOK REVIEW: Natsume Sōseki’s “I am a Cat”
Written in 1905, Sōseki’s work is narrated by an anonymous moggy who spends his days observing the comings-and-goings in the household of his master….
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#EssaySaturday, Arts & Culture
What Grows in Kangan? Planting the Paracosm in Anthills of the Savannah
Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah is a giant of the late eighties – nominated for the 1987 Booker Prize, it is a combination of several unflinching portraits of humanity ...
#EssaySaturday, Arts & Culture, Covid-19 Blog, Editor's Pick
The Healthy Desire For Discomfort
I dream of discomfort. For a year now I have lived a hazy half-life of wool and fleece and sweatpants.
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BOOK REVIEW: “Burr” Revisited
I’ve very nearly finished re-reading Burr – which I thought I’d read forty years ago, but hardly scratched the surface.
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Digging the Barrows of ‘Antaeus’ and the ‘Bog Queen’: On Living, Dying and Something In Between in the Landscapes of Seamus Heaney’s North
Seamus Heaney’s landscapes are as grim as they are liminal…..
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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature
BOOK REVIEW: Vahni Capildeo’s “Skin Can Hold”
Vahni Capildeo’s Skin Can Hold bursts with ideas, electric with the joy of words. Capildeo is a writer enamoured with language, and her book offers up sextina, rondeau, motet, dialogue, ...
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature, Travel&Lifestyle
Book Review: Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami
Although a translation of her short novel Ms Ice Sandwich was brought out by Pushkin Press in 2017, Breasts and Eggs is the first full-length fiction by Mieko Kawakami to ...
#EssaySaturday, Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick
A “Brilliant Sun”, a “Trap of Bones” – Visions of Pakistan in Moniza Alvi’s -The Country at My Shoulder.
Although it would take me a shameful ten years to realise it, in evoking that disjunct, Alvi’s Presents from My Aunts in Pakistan is a piece of masterful storytelling. ...