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Category: Reviews
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 … 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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