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 … More

Review: Mood by Roz Bellamy

A vital memoir of mental illness.

Review: Madukka by Julie Janson

The crime is colonisation.

Review: The Wife by Sigrid Undset (translated by Tiina Nunnally)

Biting marital drama.

Review: The Modern by Anna Kate Blair

Love, sex, marriage, work and New York deconstructed.

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Review: Porn by Polly Barton

Pornchats for everyone!

Review: W. H. Auden: Poems Selected By John Fuller

Poetry that belies Auden’s training as a scientist.