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Yun Ko-eun’s ‘The Disaster Tourist’

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September 2020

Esther Kim

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September 2020

How might the novelist, working with a form traditionally obsessed with humans, represent the nonhuman? Or, perhaps a better question: how might a fiction...

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September 2020

Shola von Reinhold’s ‘LOTE’

Izabella Scott

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September 2020

To read Shola von Reinhold’s ornate, multi-layered novel LOTE (2020) is to encounter a baroque mind. It tells the...

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September 2020

Let’s try again. Start over. On Nathalie Léger

Katie Da Cunha Lewin

Book Review

September 2020

I went to see Barbara Loden’s Wanda at a screening at the ICA, not for Nathalie Léger, but for...

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August 2020

Natasha Stagg’s ‘Sleeveless’

Amber Husain

Book Review

August 2020

‘The thong is centimetres closer to areas of arousal,’ writes Natasha Stagg in Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York,...

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August 2020

Peter Gizzi’s ‘Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems’

Lucy Mercer

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August 2020

Described by its publisher as a ‘generous selection’, Peter Gizzi’s Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2019) is more...

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August 2020

Natalia Borges Polesso’s ‘Amora’

Ellen Jones

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August 2020

For me, reading in Portuguese is a bit like watching the world go by through an extremely dirty window....

Nisha Ramayya’s ‘States of the Body Produced by Love’

Book Review

July 2020

Pratyusha

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July 2020

In States of the Body Produced by Love, Nisha Ramayya explores the Hindu goddess Parvati in her ten forms, the Mahāvidyās, each goddess coursing...

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July 2020

Against Mastery: A Dialogue on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer’

Sita Balani

Jay Bernard

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July 2020

Jay Bernard: Whenever I am asked to write about something – usually because I share some social category with...

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July 2020

Jorge Consiglio’s ‘Fate’

Ka Bradley

Book Review

July 2020

Relationships can be long and snaking, cutting like train tracks through the varied landscapes of a life, and they...

Miranda Popkey’s ‘Topics of Conversation’

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July 2020

Elisa Gabbert

Book Review

July 2020

‘We tell ourselves stories in order to live’ is one of those lines that is quoted so often out of context it has lost...

 

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