In Review: Meg Kim, Invisible Cartographies (New Delta Review, 2024)
Kim’s debut chapbook Invisible Cartographies, published September 2024 by New Delta Review, is perhaps a collection of thundereggs.
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- Aug 24
- 7 min
Pimping unfinished business: Elias Canetti's "The Book Against Death"
Elias Canetti asks if language is the barrier to understanding some kind of universal mortality.
- Apr 5
- 7 min
"Splinters": The Opposite of a Cocktail-Party
Leslie Jamison’s Splinters was released at the end of February to enormous fanfare.
- Mar 20
- 8 min
Minor Details, Major Insights
Under the sombre sky of a rainy city centre, vibrant flags in black, red, green, and white hues stood out distinctly
- Mar 10
- 8 min
Adventure in Solitude
...as she bore both a personal and reportorial witness to the labour of “dying, when one loves life so much.”
- Dec 3, 2023
- 6 min
Which Way, Western Man?
Rushdie and Shatz merge in their interest in cosmopolitanism and exile, in the fact of finding oneself between identities...
- Nov 28, 2023
- 6 min
Human Wrongs, Animal Rights?
‘We expect extinction after people arrive on an island…survival is the exception.’
- Nov 27, 2023
- 7 min
History as it Should Have Been
Truths needn’t always depend upon facts for their expression’. So says Tom Crewe, in the Afterword to The New Life.
- Nov 25, 2023
- 7 min
Electra Complex
‘We paint our toenails red, though we put shoes on our feet so no one will see our flashy toes.'
- Oct 26, 2023
- 5 min
Above All Else: Desire in Maggie Millner
Love poetry is a risky business. Maggie Millner in her debut Couplets: A Love Story (2023) seems all too aware of this.
- Oct 21, 2023
- 9 min
New Caribbean Realism
The original function of the novel, V.S. Naipaul once suggested, was to give us news: to provide society with a very clear idea of itself.
- Oct 17, 2023
- 4 min
Song of Summer
As we read through Sensitive to Temperature, it becomes clear that the relationships therein are indeed sensitive to temperature.
- Oct 7, 2023
- 5 min
Sharing Space: The House on Via Gemito
SARAH MOORHOUSE - Both Starnone and Ferrante are interested in our imperfect understanding of others.
- Oct 5, 2023
- 7 min
In the Manner of a Genius: Reviewing Courtauld's Forgery Exhibition
PHILIPPA CONLON - ‘Imitation’, we are told, ‘is the sincerest form of flattery’.
- Apr 17, 2017
- 13 min
The Bedside of the Mind
Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov Gennady Barabtarlo, Princeton, 2017 ‘The most moronic fraternity in the...
- Apr 17, 2017
- 5 min
Deluge of Reality
Human Flow Ai Weiwei, Amazon Studios, 2017 We are inundated with film, television, and visual arts that ‘speak to the moment’. Social and...
- Apr 17, 2017
- 11 min
Signal to the Gatekeepers
Why Does Inequality Matter? T M Scanlon, Oxford University Press, 2018 Global Inequality Branko Milanovic, Harvard University Press, 2016...
- Apr 17, 2017
- 8 min
Behind the Camera
Towards the close of This Is Not a Film (2011), a despondent Jafar Panahi is cajoled by his friend and fellow filmmaker Mojtaba...
- Apr 17, 2017
- 7 min
Big Clunking Fist
My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown, Penguin 2017 Shortly after John Smith’s death, Gordon Brown discovered his was one of those professions...
- Feb 1, 2017
- 9 min
Mary Poppins, Murderer
Lullaby Leïla Slimani, trans. by Sam Taylor, Faber and Faber, 2018 Dans le jardin de l’ogre Leïla Slimani, Gallimard, 2014 When a writer...
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