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HOLDING THE ROOM: ON HOLLY PESTER’S ‘COMIC TIMING’

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May 2021

Helen Charman

Book Review

May 2021

The last poem in Holly Pester’s first collection COMIC TIMING (Granta, 2021) is called ‘Villette’; it shares its title with Charlotte Brontë’s 1853 novel...

Book Review

May 2021

Sinking into Exile

Dylan Suher

Book Review

May 2021

I am admittedly an outsider to Hong Kong, but as Liu Yichang’s 1962 novel The Drunkard proves, the outsider...

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April 2021

A Leathery Mood: On Jeremy Atherton Lin’s 'Gay Bar'

Amelia Abraham

Book Review

April 2021

With few exceptions, the queer spaces I have visited over the years vary wildly, but there is a slippery...

Art Review

April 2021

BY PONNUTHAI’S SIDE

Vijeta Kumar

Art Review

April 2021

In a photograph by Jaisingh Nageswaran, a boy is swimming in a river. His arm lunges forward, hanging mid-air....

Book Review

February 2021

On Mary Gaitskill

Rosa Lyster

Book Review

February 2021

Mary Gaitskill’s fiction is full of cats – stray kittens wandering in and out of people’s lives, little white...

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January 2021

The Abyss Echoes Back: Judith Schalansky’s ‘An Inventory of Losses’

Aaron Peck

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January 2021

Early in Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses, the narrator describes the way an ancient form of writing survived...

End Times: Heather Phillipson’s ‘The End’

Art Review

December 2020

Alex Quicho

Art Review

December 2020

A huge swirl of whipped cream, garnished with a drone, a fly, and a maraschino cherry: so insistent that I avert my eyes on...

Book Review

October 2020

Isabel Wilkerson's ‘Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents’

Durgesh Solanki

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October 2020

In 1498 the colonial explorer Vasco da Gama reached Kerala, on the West Coast of present-day India. The Portuguese...

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October 2020

Mieko Kawakami’s ‘Breasts and Eggs’

Zakia Uddin

Book Review

October 2020

‘What use are eggs on their own?’ is a question that resounds through Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs, a...

Pankaj Mishra’s ‘Bland Fanatics’

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September 2020

Rebecca Liu

Book Review

September 2020

The Anglo-American commentariat is full of lofty egos. Pankaj Mishra has developed a reputation as their great deflater. ‘Watch This Man’, the writer’s much-discussed...

 

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