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Guillermo Stitch is the author of the award-winning novel, Literature™, and the novel, Lake of Urine: A Love Story.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Arts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Literature
Book Review: Common People, edited by Kit de Waal
With over thirty contributions from as many writers, Common People shines a light on the huge diversity of people in the United Kingdom and celebrates this richness loudly.
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Book Review: London Undercurrents, by Joolz Sparkes and Hilaire
Sparkes and Hilaire have divided in two the work of unearthing and voicing by location, with Sparkes taking North and Hilaire the South of London, demarcated by the river that ...
Book Review: The Choke, by Sofie Laguna
In “The Choke” characters are trapped by circumstances, doomed to repeat the mistakes of previous generations, as they bid to break free from a cycle of poverty, addiction and violence. ...
Book Review: At Home in the New World, by Maria Terrone
In her collection of essays, At Home in the New World, Maria Terrone explores the world through the lens of an Italian-American New Yorker.
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Book Review: Stubborn Archivist, by Yara Rodrigues Fowler
A stylistically complex novel, Stubborn Archivist blends prose poetry and disjointed narratives, the result of which is a novel with a sense of urgency.
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Book Review: The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually, by Jinny Koh
When you expect The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually to become a whodunnit it morphs more into a mystery and almost becomes a ghost story, but don’t let me give ...
Book Review: The Cartography of Others, by Catherine McNamara
The backdrops are real and effectively drawn but it is in charting the contours of the human condition that McNamara succeeds with skilful interpretation.
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Book Review: Live Show, Drinks Included, by Vicky Grut
I cannot say, hand on heart, that every single story was for me, but I can say I was never bored, never tempted to put the book down and come ...
Book Review: We Were Strangers, an anthology of new stories inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, edited by Richard Hirst
All this misjudged levity is really an attempt to sublimate the subject matter of the record that inspired this collection: depression.
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Book Review: Writing the “literary life”: The Pleasures of Queuing, by Erik Martiny
Just a little over halfway through Erik Martiny’s debut novel, the protagonist-narrator, Olaf Montcocq, deep in the throes of adolescent literary self-emergence, explains how he welcomed the prospect of being ...
Book Review: Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World, by Lyndall Gordon
In this book Gordon takes five women writers who battled against the social norms and takes us behind the characters they created
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Poetry Review: Meat Songs by Jack Nicholls and Pisanki by Zosia Kuczyńska
These poems and prose poems are not simply love letters to loyal companions; instead the reader is presented with Blakeian explorations into perspectives: the points of view of animals, their ...
The Epic Poetry of B-Movies: A Review of Aaron Poochigian’s Mr. Either/Or
Meet you. You are the hero of Mr. Either/Or, a story told in second person, which creates the feel of a choose-your-own-adventure novel.
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Book Review: Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich
Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich’s latest novel…takes the idea of a ‘retrieval of history’ seriously – not just in its pale liberal version (‘memory’), but as the ...
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante: Two Cities, Two Islands: An Interview with Miriam Gómez
Deep inside the Gloucester Road apartment where the Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante resided from 1967 until his death in 2005, the visitor finds a majestic landscape. ...
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Litro #165: Breaking Borders | Figures over the Strait
How long is the flight between Havana and Miami?
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