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WASTELAND IN THE SUN

Book Review

March 2022

Shane Jones

Book Review

March 2022

Due to our destructive behaviour, writer E.O. Wilson foresaw humanity soon entering the Eremocene – the ‘Age of Loneliness’. This fresh hell would be...

Book Review

February 2022

A Small But Incredibly Valuable Nut

Rhoda Feng

Book Review

February 2022

At the end of Amitav Ghosh’s SEA OF POPPIES (2008), a character reflects on how her life has been...

Book Review

January 2022

Impossible Paradise

Irenosen Okojie

Book Review

January 2022

Rivers Solomon’s SORROWLAND is a gothic horror tale that shows how injustices imposed on Black Americans change us. Sweeping...

Art Review

December 2021

Myths of Abundance

Chris Hayes

Art Review

December 2021

The body of a peasant, modelled from ceramic, is strewn on the ground, its muted tones blending in with...

Film Review

November 2021

Ye Are Not Gawain

Mikaella Clements

Film Review

November 2021

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a tricky poem, in the literal sense that it’s full of tricks:...

Essay

September 2021

Augmented Reality

Andre Bagoo

Essay

September 2021

Not long after I moved into my first apartment, I started keeping an archive.    By ‘archive’ I mean...

An Ecstasy of Shame

Book Review

August 2021

Zoe Hu

Book Review

August 2021

It’s not easy getting cucked. Contrary to the consensus online, which sees a cuck in every message board, there are few worthy pretenders to...

Book Review

July 2021

Slouching Towards Death

Amber Husain

Book Review

July 2021

In January, a preview excerpt in The New Yorker of Rachel Kushner’s essay collection The Hard Crowd (2021) warned...

Book Review

July 2021

Rot Beneath the Surface

Laura Maw

Book Review

July 2021

Fire has started in Flat 4 of Paradise Block. The young girl in Alice Ash’s story ‘Eggs’ watches with...

Devil in the Detail: on Leesa Gazi’s ‘Hellfire’

Book Review

July 2021

Tausif Noor

Book Review

July 2021

British-Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam’s debut A Golden Age (2007) tracks the early stirrings of revolution in East Bengal from the 1950s to the climax...

 

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