by Christine | Aug 24, 2015 | Reviews
Crista Ermiya’s debut short story collection presents neat and well-observed fictions that evoke more than a flicker of the uncanny, conjuring a world in which all stories are true, somewhere. Whether in the curious tale of a boy who falls in love when a mysterious...
by Christine | Aug 9, 2015 | Front page, Reviews
I believe that lying is one of the noblest of human endeavours. I won’t justify this position (at least not here) but will state that Family Heirlooms, a 1990 novella by Brazilian author Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares, translated last year by Daniel Hahn and published by...
by Christine | Jul 27, 2015 | Author news, Reviews
Parthian proudly celebrates their ‘carnival of new voices in independent publishing’, and the jacket from Structo eleven contributor Susmita Bhattacharya’s debut novel promises no less; it dances with verdant greens, bold reds, even a faintly sexual...
by Christine | Jul 18, 2015 | Front page, Interviews
Another post in our ongoing series: an interview with author Susmita Bhattacharya. Read her short story ‘Comfort Food’ online in Structo magazine issue eleven. Can you say a little about where ‘Comfort Food’ came from? ‘Comfort...
by Christine | Jun 23, 2015 | Front page, Reviews
The Window My dad’s a window cleaner, so I’m looking forward to telling him about a story in which the hero is someone from his own world. In Alex Christofi’s novel Glass we’re offered a window into the life and death of one Gunther Glass, who, following the loss of...
