Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail reviewed
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Shalom Auslander’s Mother for Dinner reviewed
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Jan Swafford’s Johannes Brahms: A Biography reviewed
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Catherine McNamara’s Love Stories for Hectic People reviewed
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Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt reviewed
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Litro sits down with Dima Alzayat
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An intriguing and thought-provoking sentence opens the novel His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie and demands an undivided reader’s attention.
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The Lamplighters begins with a classic locked room mystery, inspired by a real-life event in the Outer Hebrides in 1900, but the mystery is just the starting point for this ...
Shuggie Bain lays bare the reality of poverty and inequality in this moving debut
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In her second poetry collection, Natalie Diaz explores the conflict between violence and love, pleasure and pain, colonial genocide…..
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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 ...
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 ...
‘The Aosawa Murders’ is a joy to read. It is cleverly paced and constructed so that each new chapter brings more fragments and clues for us to stitch together, to ...
There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people, human beings like anybody else.
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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 ...
Diaz’s poems display mesmerising images that celebrate the personal and global resilience of marginalised populations who resist and exist by cutting out a space for themselves in an occupied land; ...
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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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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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, ...
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 ...