A warped subversion of childhood that excavates the depths of human cruelty.
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A complex, beautiful, poetic and disturbing mediation on human existence.
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if there are two fearsome things lurking in the collective psyche of young Japanese minds today, it is surely having children, and moving to the countryside.
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Gu weaves together the gripping and sometimes heartbreaking tales of a contract killer trying to outrun her past.
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Every part of our lives becomes a story one day
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An exploration of language and identity in a quasi-dystopian landscape.
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Solà’s use of sound and color is best when read out loud.
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If being a writer is the greater height, where lower to fall than the foot of a neglected tower block?
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A chilling contribution to a sadly slim body of works that highlight the plight of women in Morocco today
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Nathacha Appanah takes us on a journey through three generations of a fractured family, told from the different perspectives of a mother and her two children
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Blue by Emmelie Prophète reviewed
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Mahsa Mohebali’s novel In Case of Emergency reviewed
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A fun and deeply cynical view of the future, Joy Williams’ new novel, Harrow, warns of the danger we face in “trashing” our world.
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Poignant, almost remorseful, a short essay of long thoughts.
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In response to the well-known fact that women remain under-represented generally across the film industry, a competition designed to encourage more women in film journalism has been announced by Sight ...
Short story writers Helen Simpson and Michele Roberts were at the London Review of Books last Thursday to talk about “Women Writing Women”. Before contemplating the depictions ...
