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Octavia Bright

Octavia Bright is a London-based writer and academic, and co-host of the literary podcast and NTS Radio show Literary Friction. 



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Lisa Taddeo’s ‘Three Women’

Book Review

September 2019

Octavia Bright

Book Review

September 2019

Reading Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women, I kept thinking of the artist Jenny Holzer’s statement from her work Truisms: ‘abuse of power comes as no...

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July 2012

Theatre's Arab Turn

Tanjil Rashid

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July 2012

Apart from the odd Shakespearean exception, from Othello the Moor of Venice to the Merchant of Venice’s marginal Moroccan...

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June 2017

Oberhausen Film Festival

Tom Overton

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June 2017

Such film festivals – those extraordinary clusters of images, transports of light, of virtual worlds scattered across a real...

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September 2014

The Fringe of Reality

Antoine Volodine

TR. Jeffrey Zuckerman

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September 2014

Many thanks to those who have allowed me to speak; now I’ll do so.   I’m actually not talking...

 

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