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Arts & Culture, Books, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: LOVE STORIES FOR HECTIC PEOPLE
Catherine McNamara’s Love Stories for Hectic People reviewed
Book Review: His Only Wife, by Peace Adzo Medie
An intriguing and thought-provoking sentence opens the novel His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie and demands an undivided reader’s attention.
Book Review: The Lamplighters, by Emma Stonex
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 ...
Book Review: The Dead are Arising: the Life of Malcolm X
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 ...
Book Review: Riku Onda’s “The Aosawa Murders”
‘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 ...
Books, Editor's Pick, Technology
Book Review: Astral Travel by Elizabeth Baines
There comes a point in your grown-up life when you realise that your parents are just people, human beings like anybody else.
Book Review: Postcolonoial Love Poems by Nathalie Diaz
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; ...
Book Review: Night of the Long Goodbyes, by Erik Martiny
In Night of the Long Goodbyes, Erik Martiny takes us into a dystopian near-future. Set in the mid-21st century, Britain is in the grip of hyperpopulist post-Brexit politics.
Book Review: Lake of Urine, by Guillermo Stitch
Read Litro’s interview with Guillermo Stitch.
Lake of Urine is original and absorbing, a mad whirly-gig romp through the lives of ...
Interviews, Literature, Technology
Interview with Guillermo Stitch, author of Lake of Urine
Guillermo Stitch is the author of the award-winning novel, Literature™, and the novel, Lake of Urine: A Love Story.
Book Review: El Llano in flames, by Juan Rulfo
Set in the years following the Mexican Revolution, El Llano in Flames is a collection of stark and violent short stories translated by Stephen Beechinor.
Book Review:Only a Lodger . . . And Hardly That, by Vesna Main
Only a Lodger … And Hardly That. The title’s borrowed from the eighteenth-century writer and composer Charles Ignatius Sancho, who gained notoriety as the first British African eligible to vote ...
Locking, Unlocking: A Comparative Review of Olja Savičević’s Singer in the Night & Sophie van Llewyn’s Bottled Goods
This is a story about love, but it is also about making choices. Savičević’s disjointed narrative is, at times, challenging, but it becomes evident that this is exactly the author’s ...
Books, Editor's Pick, Literature
Book Review: Corregidora, by Gayl Jones
“No novel about any black woman could ever be the same after this” – Toni Morrison.
Book Review: The Heartsick Diaspora, by Elaine Chiew
The diversity of voices across the collection reflects not only Chiew’s talent, but perhaps also the long span of years over which they were written.
Books, Editor's Pick, Literature
Book Review: Winter in Sokcho, by Elisa Shua Dusapin
But when the summer disappears, Sokcho empties of the commercial buzz; it loses the boost of transitory, touristy cash.
Book Review: Shelf Life, by Livia Franchini
In the midst of the break-up, Ruth is charged with organising a hen party for her frenemy Alana, who within hours of Ruth’s split, announces her wedding.
Book Review: Map of Another Town, by M.F.K. Fisher
Best known for her food writing, in Map of Another Town the American writer M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a virtual tour of the French town of Aix-en-Provence.
Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Literature, Technology
Book Review: Good Day?, by Vesna Main
Vesna Main’s latest novel, Good Day?, is a masterpiece of understatement and inquiry into intimacy, fidelity, memory, and the business of fiction itself
Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature
Book Review: The DNA of You and Me, by Andrea Rothman
An award that summarises what her life has been all about, the points of no return and the choices made along the way.