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Laughing at the Forbidden: A Review of Percival Everett’s “The Trees”
No author has been more overlooked than Percival Everett.
Books for Every Year
It’s that time of the year again. Everyone starting from the New York Times to your friendly neighbourhood bookstore owner is bunging “best of…” lists at you.
Arts & Culture, Litro in Edinburgh
Litro in Edinburgh
It’s been a great few years for the UK: we’ve just hosted the Olympics successfully; saw Andy Murray win Wimbledon; our TV shows have taken over US airwaves, with shows ...
Book Review: Time, an anthology by Lazy Gramophone (ed. Sam Rawlings)
Lazy Gramophone must be commended here for assembling in Time an anthology that at least attempts to marry shrewd accessibility with artsy conceptual considerations.
Book Review: The Syllabus of Errors by Ashley Stokes
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. ...
Book Review: TransAtlantic by Colum McCann
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 ...
Latitude: Who to Watch for Lit Lovers
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.
Book Review: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
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.
Book Review: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
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 ...
Book Review: Y by Marjorie Celona
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.
Book Review: A Virtual Love by Andrew Blackman
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 ...
Book Review: Hypothermia by Alvaro Enrigue
Equal parts thrilling romp and grim, unflinching inspection of the contemporary immigrant experience, Albert Enrique’s short story collection Hypothermia is literature at its bravest.
Book Review: King of the Jungle by KS Silkwood
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.
“Neither a Satanic nor a Napoleonic Giant but a Plain Sinner” : The Tragedy of Raskolnikov
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, ...
Book Review: Roman Elegy by Sabine Gruber (trans. Peter Lewis)
Within Sabine Gruber’s Roman Elegy Lochlan Bloom enjoys not only the sensations of life in the Italian capital but also the wonderful depiction of tensions that have existed between Germany ...
Book Review: Idiopathy by Sam Byers
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.
Novel: The Folded Man by Matt Hill
Daniel Ellis reviews Matt Hill’s debut novel, The Folded Man, and finds much to savour in this dystopian tale of broken Britain.
Novel: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
One hesitates before calling A Tale for the Time Being a “novel of ideas”, which presupposes an imbalance toward themes over character, but it would be impossible to truly enjoy ...
Transgression and MJ Hyland’s ‘This Is How.’
Emma Cooper discusses the theme of transgression in one of her favourite books, MJ Hyland’s This Is How.
Novel: Filght Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
Global warming. Now, there’s a phrase that can divide opinion, stir up controversy and shine a spotlight on apathy It’s nearly impossible to discuss without resorting to well-trodden rhetorical ground ...