
Category: Review


“When it was good, it was very good” – The Fugitives by Jamal Mahjoub

“Not an easy read” – The Shutter of Snow by Emily Holmes Coleman

“Engenders a sort of temporal vertigo” – Notes from Deep Time by Helen Gordon

“Not a perfect read” – The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces by Stephan Eicke

“A rare gem” – River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer

“Out of time” – The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish

“A comedic postcard from the edge” – Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey

“Interesting and important” – Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster (photos Spencer Ostrander)

“It’s fresh” – Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

“Carefully layered” – Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell

“Works in the same way as Michael Haneke’s film The White Ribbon” – Irmina by Barbara Yelin

“Not a light read, but it’s a worthwhile one” – Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra

“You might find yourself cheering” – Muppets in Moscow by Natasha Lance Rogoff

“Red in tooth and claw” – The Tangle by Justin Robertson

“Nothing better can be hoped for” – T H White: A Biography by Sylvia Townsend Warner

White Riot by Joe Thomas

“Linguistically exuberant” – Avalon by Nell Zink

“Ellis is back” – The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis

“Chockful of invention” – Your Wish is My Command by Deena Mohamed

“Explores grand human concerns” – To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

“Arresting and unusual” – W the Whore by Anke Feuchtenberger and Katrin De Vries (trans. Mark Nevins)

“Deliberately pedestrian” – Tides by Sara Freeman

“A special book for difficult times” – The Reactor by Nick Blackburn

“Immensely powerful” – The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

“Sense and nonsense were meat and drink” – Magritte, A Life by Alex Danchev

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