Love and Death in the Dream Forest
/Ancient gods and tree-born civilizations form the backdrop for Thoraiya Dyer's fascinating fantasy debut. Justin Hickey reviews Crossroads of Canopy.
Read MoreSeeing Through Hypocrisy
/Elfriede Jelinek’s Charges is a response to the European refugee crisis, but can fiction address reality by stripping it of all its details?
Read MoreUp Against Art: An interview with Jessie Chaffee
/Steve Danziger interviews Jessie Chaffee about her much-praised debut novel Florence in Ecstasy.
Read MoreWastelands – Stephen Crane’s War
/Stephen Crane was born too late to go to war, but The Red Badge of Courage endures, not only as a story about war and what happens to people in war, but also as a remarkable experiment in literary modernism.
Read MoreTry the Right Angle
/Since his 1997 debut, novelist Daniel Kehlmann has been subverting the familiar comforts of science and society. Up next: his new book You Should Have Left.
Read MoreArs Poetica
/a poem
Read MoreThe World in Her Image
/Bestselling author of Tudor historical fiction Philippa Gregory takes up the familiar tragedy of Lady Jane Grey - and her forgotten but equally compelling sisters - in her new book, as A Year with the Tudors II continues.
Read MoreThe Writings of the War
/A century ago this year, the American Expeditionary Force set off for Europe to end all wars. Andrew Carroll's new book looks at the lives of the men who faced the Great War, and the enigmatic general who led them.
Read MoreObstinate About Surviving
/Batman and Inception director Christopher Nolan's latest film is a sprawling WWII epic about the desperate heroism of the Dunkirk evacuation.
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Suffer the dark, go to the light whenever it’s there”
/This month sees Let the Dead Speak, a fine addition to Jane Casey’s compelling Detective Maeve Kerrigan series, and that special, oddball Monkeewrench crew returns for another delightful caper, Nothing Stays Buried.
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