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.
Review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
There’s something haunted and occult about this otherwise godly classic.
Review: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
A potent depiction of friendship.
Review: Winepress by Gabriela Mistral (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Poetry that is elemental, grief-stricken, unearthly.
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