The limits and possibilities of empathy.
Tag: Fiction
Review: God Forgets About The Poor by Peter Polites
“People will love my suffering”.
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: 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.
Best books I’ve read 2023
2023 reviewed.
Review: Audition by Pip Adam
Ishiguro meets Le Guin.
Review: Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Sorrow enlivened by rage and humour.