by Phil Clement | Jun 29, 2016 | Front page, Reviews
Review by Phillip Clement Last year marked a hundred years since Albert Einstein published forty-six pages that would come to change the course of human history and everything around it. His Special and General Theory heralded a new way of thinking in physics,...
by Adam | Jun 13, 2016 | Reviews
The Arrival of Missives could be classed, amongst other things, as a coming-of-age story, a fantasy novel, soft environmentalism, an anti-authoritarian fable and a sci-fi-tinged forbidden love story. This might sound like an unwieldy melange, but Aliya Whitely manages...
by Nat | May 16, 2016 | Reviews
his poems — rarely personal, ferociously political, and consistently uncanny — offer apocalyptic visions of European capitalism as a sober corrective Review by William Braun. One may be forgiven for expecting a beast of a different sort from Cristian...
by Euan | Mar 13, 2016 | Reviews
Usually, a large part of the decision to read or not to read a particular book rests on what that book is presented as ‘being about’. Interviewers spend a good deal of time trying to prise this ‘aboutness’ out of an author. Blurb writers are presumably graduates of...
by Euan | Feb 26, 2016 | Reviews
There has been a glut of recent books – I am thinking of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, or Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, or Ben Lerner’s 10:04 – that dramatise the process of writing. Salinger’s Letters, the new novel by the Danish writer Nils Schou, does...
by Euan | Feb 17, 2016 | Front page, Reviews
The New French Extremity bludgeoned cinema audiences of the late 1990s to mid 2000s with a new twist on the horror genre that had to be seen to be believed. Only once, though, because who could rewatch Irréversible (2002), knowing what ordeal is in store for the two...
