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Book ReviewsDemanding Democracy by Christopher Silver
The central argument of Christopher Silver’s excellent book Demanding Democracy: The Case for a Scottish Media is twofold: every nation is held togethe... Read more »| 29 Dec 2015 -
Book ReviewsSinclair ZX Spectrum: A Visual Compendium
Although it's been bubbling for some time, 2015 could be seen as a renaissance year for the ZX Spectrum. Read more »| 15 Dec 2015 -
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Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
Kevin Barry's second novel, Beatlebone – adding to the author's collection of awards with the Goldsmiths Prize this year – marks a cont... Read more »| 10 Dec 2015 -
Book ReviewsPoints of Origin by Diao Dou
'There are those who would say that tales of the fantastic can come only from the times of Apuleius or Kafka,' suggests Diao Dou in his newly translated coll... Read more »| 09 Dec 2015 -
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Filmish by Edward Ross
Aiming to act as a 'graphic journey through film' – charting both the evolution of the medium and the theory surrounding it – the most ... Read more »| 08 Dec 2015 -
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On Cats by Charles Bukowski
Like Bukowski. Love cats. Like people who love cats. Bukowski loved cats. Felt that with the best of them, 'each movement slides through space without fricti... Read more »| 08 Dec 2015
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Book ReviewsNocilla Dream by Agustín Fernández Mallo
The first novel in the Nocilla trilogy, Nocilla Dream features an inventive though irregular series of narrative snapshots, whose singular plots intersect at... Read more »| 30 Nov 2015 -
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
'This what it feels like to be a fan: curious, open, desiring for connection, to feel like art has chosen you, claimed you as its witness.' In her long form ... Read more »| 27 Nov 2015 -
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Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
A nameless woman is lost in her solitude, her thoughts and wishes. Nature and the mundane objects around her come to life and find their voice in Pond, a col... Read more »| 03 Nov 2015 -
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Dancing in the Dark by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Since the first of the series was originally published in 2009, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has sent a literary shockwave rippling down through e... Read more »| 30 Oct 2015 -
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Ghost: 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On
Certain writers you’d expect to see in a collection of ghost stories: Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker, of course. But how about Hilary Mantel, Kazuo Is... Read more »| 28 Oct 2015 -
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List of the Lost by Morrissey
Never meet your heroes. And now, never read their books it seems. I have, and heaven knows I’m miserable now. In List of the Lost, Morrissey –&nb... Read more »| 26 Oct 2015 -
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Time to rediscover Randall P. McMurphy, as Ken Kesey's classic novel is treated to a folio edition. Read more »| 08 Oct 2015 -
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Bream Gives Me Hiccups, by Jesse Eisenberg
Millennial actor-turned-author Jesse Eisenberg plays to the crowd in this short story collection. Read more »| 07 Oct 2015 -
Book ReviewsCity on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
Garth Risk Hallberg's first full novel, City on Fire, has been compared to Don DeLillo's masterpiece, Underworld Read more »| 06 Oct 2015