In his recent book on the novel, one of the most famous literary critics and theoreticians, Fredric Jameson, states that a novel is an intervention, which a naïve reader mostly takes as a representation of reality. He adds that the novel intervenes to alter or correct our common opinions of a situa
Comprised of five chapbooks, each by a different contemporary writer, with colourful covers (that sometimes make more sense once you’ve read the book) and a brief format, Kūnai, meaning ‘bodies’, is a project from 2023 from Strangers Press, a small publisher based at the University of East An
The Bonnet is the first prose work by the award-winning Slovak poet Katarína Kucbelová. Described in the publisher’s blurb as ‘literary reportage’, its poetic and psychological dimensions make it feel more like a loosely structured novel. Consisting of eighty-seven short vignettes and
I am wary of epistolary novels based around social-media interactions, as in my view their form makes momentum and character depth hard to realise. Despentes, however, proves it can be done, and also shows that among the unpleasant stuff we see online can be nuanced arguments that illuminate social
September brings us International Translation Day, European Day of Languages, and also World Kid Lit Month. All of these occasions are the perfect excuse to expand your children’s literature collection to include translations and international authors and illustrators; or to expand your internatio
Welcome to the autumn quarter’s #RivetingReviews. As September draws to a close and squalls of wet weather drench London, making getting to the surfeit of literary events the new season brings a rather damp endeavour, we are showering you, our loyal readers, with a bunch of new reviews.
