Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsBecause I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't by Josie Long
At once soothing and painful, acclaimed comedian Josie Long’s short story collection comprises characters who struggle with the inequities of daily life Read more »| 17 May 2023 -
Book ReviewsThis Is My Body, Given For You by Heather Parry
Fresh off her debut novel Orpheus Builds A Girl, Heather Parry returns with her gory, unsettling debut collection This Is My Body, Given For You Read more »| 09 May 2023 -
Book ReviewsWeak Teeth by Lynsey May
Lynsey May's debut Weak Teeth is an exercise in voyeuristic pleasure, exploring the way one woman's life falls apart in small and big ways Read more »| 04 May 2023 -
Book ReviewsOrdinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
Christina Sharpe's experimental visual poetic work Ordinary Notes is a profound rumination on knowledge, loss, Black American life and memory Read more »| 27 Apr 2023 -
Book ReviewsFray by Chris Carse Wilson
Chris Carse Wilson's debut is a beguiling and hallucinatory tale of grief amidst the wilderness Read more »| 27 Apr 2023 -
Book ReviewsEnter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
A woman leaves her home in London to return to her homeland of Palestine in Isabella Hammad's complex, tender meditation on art, family, and resistance Read more »| 26 Apr 2023
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Book ReviewsRadical: A Life of My Own by Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo's memoir Radical is the story of a search for selfhood and a language that connects her past and present Read more »| 13 Apr 2023 -
Book ReviewsShy by Max Porter
Max Porter's highly anticipated fourth novel Shy is a hallucinatory, fragmentary journey through its eponymous character's internal landscape Read more »| 04 Apr 2023 -
Book ReviewsLinghun by Ai Jiang
The debut novella from speculative short story author Ai Jiang, Linghun is a haunting investigation into home and grief Read more »| 03 Apr 2023 -
Book ReviewsNever Was by H. Gareth Gavin
H. Gareth Gavin's experimental novel defies categorisation, exploring the common, queered experience of depersonalisation Read more »| 27 Mar 2023 -
Book ReviewsRadical Intimacy by Sophie K Rosa
Sophie K Rosa's groundbreaking manifesto Radical Intimacy invites us into a politically emancipatory conceptualisation of intimacy beyond capitalism and heteronormativity Read more »| 20 Mar 2023 -
Book ReviewsFire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks
Jacqueline Crooks' debut Fire Rush is a vibrant journey into clubs, music and culture, set in the late 70s and early 80s between England and Jamaica Read more »| 02 Mar 2023 -
Book ReviewsCouplets: A Love Story by Maggie Millner
A poet takes the intimate form of the couplet to tell a tale of breaking apart and new passion in Maggie Millner's lyrical novel Read more »| 28 Feb 2023 -
Book ReviewsYour Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns
Priya Guns’ debut is a five-star ride, dripping in vivid sensuality: a Taxi Driver for the Uber generation and a heart-rending tale of queer lust across social strata Read more »| 27 Feb 2023 -
Book ReviewsWandering Souls by Cecile Pin
Cecile Pin's timely debut novel explores the long history of refugee narratives through the story of three Vietnamese siblings in Thatcherite Britain Read more »| 27 Feb 2023