a text that situates the Jim-Crow-era South in the United States within a context of fascism despite the historical use of the euphemism Jim Crow
a revolution which started with stage effects turned into a reality and this balcony scene was the final act in Romania’s love affair with socialism. Our president would not live ...
Every Christmas, for four years, I received a different book by Gerald Brom. The first was The Plucker, which is – as I ...
From Wetlands to The Time Traveler’s Wife, sex is a big part of many of our lives and it is, indeed, all around us, whether in a pornographic or erotic ...
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.
Lazy Gramophone must be commended here for assembling in Time an anthology that at least attempts to marry shrewd accessibility with artsy conceptual considerations.
The Syllabus of Errors by Ashley Stokes is an intelligent, melancholy short story collection that could have benefited from more tonal variety. Nonetheless, the stories that are here are first-rate. ...
A universe of robots, sentient planets and reviews of non-existent books: Wojciech Orlinski on the amazing literary legacy of Polish science fiction master Stanisław Lem.
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.
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.
Ali Shaw gets lost in Poland’s Puszcza Białowieska, the largest surviving remnant of the primeval forest. What is it about stories of the deep woods that fascinates, scares and changes ...
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 ...
A raucous and engaging opening in Marjorie Celona’s debut novel, Y, gives way to moments of ordinary imagery and characterisation that, ultimately, suggests better things are to come.
A. M. Bakalar, guest editor of our Poland issue, opens the door for the uninitiated to what’s going on right now in Polish literature. From a Stanisław Lem classic ...
The way that online identity is changing our real world relationships is much discussed in the press but thus far has seen relatively little literary exploration. Andrew Blackman’s new novel ...
Berlin resident and literary advisor Nerys Hudson shares a book-lover’s highlights of a city with one of Europe’s most complex and rich literary heritages, from walking tours and literature houses ...
What is most shocking about The Shock of the Fall, Nathan Filer’s debut novel, is how it transforms the stereotypical conception of the novel into something new, saddening, breath-taking and, ...
The young adult fiction market is huge, spawning book series, films, stars and franchises, and more than half its fans are apparently over 18. Eleanor Pender investigates the origins ...