MaddAddam may appear to be a future-fiction romp of gene splicing and dystopia, but at its heart it is an extremely potent and powerful examination of humanity.
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Though Topol’s prose can be devoid of nuances The Devil’s Workshop is a powerful novel about the individual’s engagement with the demons from the past.
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Meghan Beller overcomes her loyalty to the paper book to review the latest tablet offering from Nook.
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Sean Beaudoin chooses a dozen albums from his punk rock novel Wise Young Fool and pairs each, like a fine wine or craft cocktail, with a perfectly suited novel. Plus ...
Whilst cartoonish at times, Tyler Keevil’s The Drive is an entertaining and humorous road trip through the American wastelands.
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Lazy Gramophone must be commended here for assembling in Time an anthology that at least attempts to marry shrewd accessibility with artsy conceptual considerations.
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The level of ambition along with the sheer number of characters in Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic could drive the reader straight to frantically sketching family trees, but where many multi-generational novels ...
For book-lovers everywhere, Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Suffolk, offers the most comprehensive of all literary events in the world. We take a look at the must-see performers and shows.
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And the Mountains Echoed is a worthy and emotional successor from the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner whilst managing to be even more emotionally heart-wrenching.
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Johnson’s choice to make his characters speak in a casual vernacular, using American slang and speech patterns, makes this ambitious story easy to speed through and easy to enjoy; as ...
For our Germany theme, Michael Spring inspects three works of fiction that explore the amazing change between the country of the past and present, and forces us to consider whether ...
KS Silkwood’s King of the Jungle is an acerbic, energetic polemic of a novel, that revels in the hilarity and dilettantism of London’s art scene.
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For our Transgression theme, Thomas Chadwick revisits a Russian classic in which the laws constraining man can be broken, as long as you consider yourself extraordinary. First published in 1866, ...
Idiopathy‘s hilarious prose, which is at turns terse and sharp and sprawling and circular, is reminiscent of David Foster Wallace at his most entrancing.
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A new award for essay writing with a £15, 000 first prize has been announced. Named in honour of the master of the English essay, the William Hazlitt Essay Prize ...
What drives an individual to break the law or take on the might of a multinational corporation in the name of their political and social beliefs? Patricia Duffaud talks to ...
Daniel Ellis reviews Matt Hill’s debut novel, The Folded Man, and finds much to savour in this dystopian tale of broken Britain.
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An introduction to how the Litro Book Club works, and how to make the most of your membership.
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All of this is façade, of course. The young girl at the counter might believe you, but the manager is back there, and he knows. He’s thinking the new girl ...
Gwen Smith is intrigued by the prospect of a new print-only feminist magazine that promises to “fight fire with fire”.
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