Book Review: Sabrina – Nick Dranso
A brilliant graphic novel where the central mystery becomes secondary to the everyday mystery of human interaction
Book Review: Notes to Self – Emilie Pine
Pine is the type of writer that deals so frankly with womanhood that you wish you could have read her words sooner.
Book Review: Days of Awe – A.M. Homes
A collection worthy of an America confronted daily by the grotesquerie of the Trumpian leer.
Book Review: Motherhood – Sheila Heti
Motherhood is as much about wrestling with decisions as it is about motherhood.
Book Review: The Water Cure – Sophie Mackintosh
Mackintosh’s debut displays the accumulative force of collective fury.
Book Review: Not to Read – Alejandro Zambra
Although it is true that reading adds weight to our load, the books we carry with us are the bricks we build a refuge out of when downtown Santiago receives…
Book Review: Ponti – Sharlene Teo
We tell stories to make ourselves coherent, to feel our palms pressed on firm ground, to get away from the contingency of life, to retreat into the shade.
Book Review: Call Me Zebra – Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Zebra does want to connect, and this extraordinary and hilarious novel shows her striving to relate – to books, to people – in strange and difficult ways.
Book Review: Feel Free – Zadie Smith
While the apparent simplicity of her literary dictates can seem almost quaint, their confluence proffers complexity galore.
Book Review: Problems – Jade Sharma
The novel gives us one-liners that an afternoon sitcom couldn’t deliver better.
Book Review: Red Clocks – Leni Zumas
A beautifully rendered and extremely timely examination of the experience of what it is to inhabit a woman’s body and yet to be without the right to exercise autonomy over…
Book Review: The Largesse of the Sea Maiden – Denis Johnson
A slim book of five stories, each routinely demonstrates the harsh glory of Johnson’s words and underbelly worlds.
Book Review: This Could Hurt – Jillian Medoff
An intriguing study of the self-inflicted structures we live by, and the many creative, unlikely ways we find to subvert them.
Book Review: Insomniac City: New York, Oliver And Me – Bill Hayes
The book lives up to Sacks’ creed: “The most we can do is write – intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively – about what it is like living in this world at…
Book Review: Frankenstein in Baghdad – Ahmed Saadawi
With Iraq’s afflictions appearing as internecine and intractable as ever, Frankenstein in Baghdad feels both timely and prescient
Review: Narcocapitalism: Life in the Age of Anaesthesia – Laurent de Sutter
A short work of theory by philosopher and professor of Legal Theory Laurent de Sutter, weaving together a history of drugs (both prescribed and self-prescribed), mental illness and crowd control.
Book Review: Heather, The Totality – Matthew Weiner
If it was already hinted at in Mad Men, it’s crystal-clear in Heather, the Totality: Matthew Weiner's writerly influences are wholly American.
Book Review: The Broken Spiral – Ed. R.M. Clarke
A worthy collection of 20 short stories by Irish writers, in aid of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.