Science meets memoir.
Review: The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
The limits and possibilities of empathy.
Review: Banzeiro Òkòtó by Eliane Brum (translated by Diane Whitty)
Where the river goes savage.
Review: Eventually, Everything Connects by Sarah Firth
Sly, whimsical, existential essays.
Review: God Forgets About The Poor by Peter Polites
“People will love my suffering”.
Review: The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)
Sing, Goddess, sing of the wrath of Achilles.
Review: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Survival in authoritarian Ireland.
Review: Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao)
Lithe, spectral stories.
Review: The Selected Poems Of Frank O’Hara (edited by Donald Allen)
“Everything is in the poems,” Frank O’Hara writes in the manifesto that introduces this selection, in which he describes and…
Review: Mood by Roz Bellamy
A vital memoir of mental illness.