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Violence and the road: Vijay Khurana on The Passenger Seat
In Vijay Khurana’s debut novel, The Passenger Seat, male friendship is all fun and games - until […]
Review
The Place of Shells: An unexpected journey
Mai Ishizawa's 'The Place of Shells' captures the surreal feeling of a world abruptly transformed in utterly […]
Book review
Thomas Mann’s Overcoat: Surreal, speculative, bizarre
Ugly coats, invisible elephants and giant monuments having sex with the clouds: Istvan Vörös' new novel manages […]
Book review
The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth: Visions of life’s geometry
In Adrian Duncan's latest, a statue-repairer moves to Italy in a novel that explores the spatial reasoning […]
Column
In search of “Brodernism”: Where is this maximalist cult of difficulty?
It's possible to read literature in translation and not fetishise it – we do it all the time.
Editor's column
Blurb your enthusiasm: The case for abolishing the book blurb
"Some of the worst-written pieces of English on the planet". Our resident book critic wants the book […]
