It is the time of year again where thoughts turn to Women in Translation Month. While founder Maytal Radzinski has hinted at …
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Book Reviews
The Road review: reading Vasily Grossman’s short stories and essays to mark the writer’s birthday
Today would have been Vasily Grossman’s birthday and in honour of the occasion, I am trying to fit in a few chapters …
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This is a busy time of year, as noted in my last review, and when reading time is short, I often turn …
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Small Things Like These review: Claire Keegan’s latest for Novellas in November
Being up to your ears in work is nothing to complain about, unless it cuts into the reading and writing time too …
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A few years ago, I realised that my natural interest in books written in England in the 1920s and 30s was leading …
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I loved Fernando Sdrigotti’s short story Jolts when it appeared in 3am Magazine in 2015. Now five years have whipped by and …
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If even the title of my last post – 10 long books to read on lockdown – was enough to make you …
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In his introduction to The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, Murakami Haruki describes the collection as giving ‘the same kind of …
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How happy these lads must have been when they were really miserable; they said to themselves: ‘What a bit of luck! A …