My reading highlights of the year!
Review: Permafrost by SJ Norman
A collection of haunted stories that unsettle like the melting permafrost of the title.
Review: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by David McDuff)
A deep dive into the glorious decline of Russian society.
Review: Good Indian Daughter by Ruhi Lee
Lee’s memoir is a complicated depiction of parents and parenting.
Review: In The Woods by Tana French
A twisty, effective crime novel.
Review: At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop (translated by Anna Moschovakis)
A potent depiction of war.
Review: The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
A grim, aching study of women’s guilt and men’s rage.
Review: The Essential Emily Dickinson (selected by Joyce Carol Oates)
Strange, precise and elusive poetry.
Review: Things I Don’t Want To Know by Deborah Levy
Deborah Levy concisely summarises what makes her own writing so compelling.
Review: China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
A slight but full novel set in 1920s and 1990s Punjab.
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