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ESSAYS & REVIEWS


Nov 15, 20245 min read
No Direction Home
Simon Alderwick reviews: AGIMAT by Romalyn Ante, Small Undetectable Thefts by Yanita Georgieva and All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath

Nov 4, 20247 min read
Paper trails of pleasure
In 2003, when she was diagnosed with cancer, Annie Ernaux found that she could not write.


Nov 3, 202414 min read
Caging Kafka
Kafka’s protagonists, both human and animal, often find themselves caged.

Oct 30, 20246 min read
HOW TO SPUR THE MOMENT
Hourani’s poetry is as meditative as it is proactive: it finds in the poet’s prerogative to organise a method of resistance.Â


Oct 12, 20246 min read
Sally Rooney in Captivity
Sally Rooney’s new book wriggles under new (and old) constraints.

Oct 3, 20246 min read
In Pursuit of Nothing
Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon, had knockout feet. Few who saw them in action would deny it.


Sep 3, 20248 min read
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.


Aug 24, 20247 min read
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, 20247 min read
"Splinters": The Opposite of a Cocktail-Party
Leslie Jamison’s Splinters was released at the end of February to enormous fanfare.

Mar 20, 20248 min read
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
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