Book Reviews
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Book ReviewsSwimmer Among the Stars by Kanishk Tharoor
Short stories have a tendency to titillate but ultimately disappoint; by their very nature, they seem designed to be unfinished fragments of another world. W... Read more »| 05 Jul 2017 -
Book ReviewsBroken River by J. Robert Lennon
"A small house, in the woods, far from anything fun." When Karl and Eleanor uproot from Brooklyn for a fresh start in upstate New York, their new fixer-upper... Read more »| 04 Jul 2017 -
Book ReviewsEvery Fox is a Rabid Fox by Harry Gallon
Robert is an unintentional killer. Not only did he fatally elbow his twin sister out of their mother’s womb, he is also responsible for the death of hi... Read more »| 29 Jun 2017 -
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Walls Come Tumbling Down by Daniel Rachel
Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the formation of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge across two decades where artists and activists joined forces to ma... Read more »| 28 Jun 2017 -
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Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays by Tom McCarthy
Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish is the first collection of essays from Tom McCarthy, a novelist twice nominated for the Man Booker prize for C and Satin Island... Read more »| 28 Jun 2017 -
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Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
Nothing to learn but plenty to love about Murakami's latest anti-machismo collection. Read more »| 25 May 2017
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Book ReviewsFlights by Olga Tokarczuk
Flights sets out as a dissection of modern travel, and becomes a diagnosis of the ancient human compulsion to move about. It is a loose travelogue, a collect... Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
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You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood
You Don’t Know Me is a sharp, enticing, and thought provoking debut novel. The book begins with the evidence in a court case against a young male from ... Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
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Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell
Patty Yumi Cottrell’s stand-out debut novel opens with our protagonist, Helen, receiving a new IKEA sofa alongside the news that her adoptive brother h... Read more »| 23 May 2017 -
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Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Gravel Heart, Abdulrazak Gurnah’s ninth novel, fits neatly into the author’s established oeuvre, as he returns to familiar themes of immigration,... Read more »| 16 May 2017 -
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Strange Heart Beating by Eli Goldstone
Recently bereaved English academic Seb is struggling with the loss of his wife Leda, so visits her native country to learn more about her and divert his encr... Read more »| 28 Apr 2017 -
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Compass by Mathias Enard
On a single sleepless night in Vienna, musicologist Franz Ritter revisits moments from a life spent studying and exploring the Middle East, winding through m... Read more »| 26 Apr 2017 -
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The Things I Would Tell You edited by Sabrina Mahfouz
‘Woman like no one is ever going to read you. Woman like you have everything to say.’ In The Things I Would Tell You, edited by Sabrina Mahfouz,... Read more »| 26 Apr 2017 -
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Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
Jeremy works in a video rental store in the small Iowan town he’s lived in all his life when one day his routine is interrupted by the discovery of som... Read more »| 25 Apr 2017 -
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Void Star by Zachary Mason
At an unspecified time in the near future, the oceans have risen, implanted chips make infinite memory a possibility and anti-aging clinics offer eternal you... Read more »| 18 Apr 2017