An extraordinarily bleak depiction of incarceration.
Tag: Novel
Review: The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Michael Glenny)
A devilish romp through Soviet literary society.
Review: Losing Face by George Haddad
A comin-of-age that troubles long after the final sentence.
Review: March by Geraldine Brooks
A novel that fills in a literary absence – and opens others.
Review: Australiana by Yumna Kassab
An all-too-human portrayal of the people who live on the land.
Review: The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai
A heaving, seething, raging novel full of life’s absurdities.
Review: A Room With A View by E. M. Forster
A classic novel of travel and Romance.
Review: Sex And Vanity by Kevin Kwan
A fizzy adaptation of E. M. Forster’s A Room With A View.
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.
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