Written Reviews

Miranda July: “The Metal Bowl”

August 28, 2017

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Miranda July’s “The Metal Bowl.”

Mohsin Hamid: Exit West

August 25, 2017

Paul reviews Mohsin Hamid’s Man Booker Prize Longlisted Exit West, a book he’d love to see on the shortlist and wouldn’t mind seeing take the prize.

Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire

August 24, 2017

Paul reviews Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, a reworking of Antigone set in the modern day which is a Man Booker Prize contender.

Sacha Guitry: La poison

August 23, 2017

This week The Criterion Collection is releasing Sacha Guitry’s 1951 film La poison, starring the great Michel Simon. Trevor reviews the film.

Mike McCormack: Solar Bones

August 22, 2017

Lee reviews Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones, the book that won last year’s Goldsmiths Prize, set up to “celebrate qualities of creative daring” and to “reward fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form.” The book is also a contender for this year’s Man Booker Prize.

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