Stories that illuminate the condition of the modern world.
Tag: Fiction
Review: Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
A sympathetic and warts-and-all depiction of love, loss and family.
Review: The Story Of A New Name by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)
This second instalment of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet deepens and complicates the themes of the first.
Review: Companion Piece by Ali Smith
A fittingly grim and anxious search for meaning in our anxious and grim times.
Review: A History Of Dreams by Jane Rawson
A witty and delightful novel about fighting evil.
Review: Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam
A gleefully silly horror-comedy of the end of the world.
Review: Bodies Of Light by Jennifer Down
A novel of surviving extraordinary trials.
Review: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
A contained and seething study of madness and familial obligation.
Review: Son Of Sin by Omar Sakr
A heady mix of mundane and heavenly, the sins of the flesh and the yearning of the spirit.
Review: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
A monumental, meandering, magnificent tale of truth, love, beauty.
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