Essays that evoke the feeling of living through environmental crisis.
Review: Shirley by Ronnie Scott
Ronnie Scott renders pre-pandemic life scintillatingly strange.
Review: Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones
Taught and supple as leather, menacing and poignant.
Review: My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden
Sally Hayden exposes the cruelty and corruption of the EU’s refugee policies.
Review: The Island Of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
A sweeping, grandiose tale of love and war.
Review: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà (translated by Mara Feye Lethem)
A short, elemental novel pulsing with the rhythms of time.
Review: An Immense World by Ed Yong
A majestic and intimate travelogue of animals’ sensory worlds.
Review: White Noise by Don DeLillo
A bracing dose of retro-strangeness.
Review: Hold Your Fire by Chloe Wilson
I screamed, I cackled, I winced my way through these delicious short stories.
Review: Cold Coast by Robyn Mundy
Brings the excitement and adventure of living through the polar night to life.
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