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Novel: Cold Nights of Childhood (Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri)
Tezer Ozlu explores the extremity of her inner life and the painful pleasures of memory.
Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday, Features
The Ferlinghetti On The Left Shoulder
The intersectionality of art as freedom where religion can trap.
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: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 ...
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.
Pete Burns’ Left Testicle and Other Alternatives: Memory Songs, by James Cook
This book is about Michael Stipe’s shyness, Jarvis Cocker’s brown-cord genius and Pete Burns’ left testicle peeking out from his leotard for the entire duration of a gig he did ...
Book Review: The Other Hoffman Sister, by Ben Fergusson
The past few years have seen, once again, a growth and movement behind nationalism. From the cries to ‘take back our country’, the rejection of globalism for protectionism, to Brexit ...
#TheWednesdayPlay, Arts & Culture
Marriage, Miscarriage
“Virginia. Her name is practically vagina. Of course, she’s a slut.” It’s New York. It’s infidelity. It’s hilarious.
The play centres around four friends and a hidden secret that reveals itself ...
Arts & Culture, Travel&Lifestyle
From the archives: People on Sunday | Everyday Life in the Weimar Before the Nazis Arrived
The film is also an important piece of German culture as it portrays everyday life in the Weimar Republic just before the Nazis came to power.
Dual Review: All the Rivers by Dorit Rabinyan and The German Girl by Armando Lucas Correa
Both of these novels explore Jewish identity and the diaspora – with All the Rivers, about the relationship between an Israeli woman and Palestinian man the book, banned in Israeli ...
With Vincent, Joseph Fasano Offers 80 Pages of Exquisite Evil
“I whispered listen / listen today I read in a place / I cannot tell you of the dark matter / in the cargo of things.”
Review: Back to Moscow by Guillermo Erades
This debut novel by diplomat Guillermo Erades is a notable addition to the modern flâneur canon.
Everyone’s a critic: dealing with negative reviews
For any author smarting from a negative review or a snotty star rating, I heartily recommend the Goodreads exercise. Make a list of the best books you’ve ever read, the ...
“And So Should She”: Reputation, Correction and the Return of Adler
Perhaps the obvious question to ask about Adler’s career is why did it disappear? Was she really shut out by a literary and journalistic establishment or did her work simply ...