Monday, July 7, 2025

Benjamin Myers' THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE

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He knows there is something else under all this. He knows there exists an under-England, a chthonic place of hidden rivers and buried relics...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Pip Adam's AUDITION

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I am thinking very hard for a moment but trying not to go quiet like we did the last time we tried to think very hard. One of the sillier, y...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Andy Sharp's THE ENGLISH HERETIC COLLECTION: RITUAL HISTORIES, MAGICKAL GEOGRAPHY

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Can we use film geographies to create cultural maps across a slice of time? A long, long time ago when I first became concerned that all I e...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Zülfü Livaneli's ON THE BACK OF THE TIGER (Tr Brenden Freely)

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One hundred years and change ago, the Young Turks deposed the ante-penultimate Ottoman emperor, Sultan Abdulhamid II , and sent him, his wi...
Monday, June 30, 2025

Fleur Jaeggy's THE WATER STATUES (Tr by Gini Alhadeff)

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On his face had been spread as though with a spatula, an expression of peace, a sermon painted over a pale complexion. Though thin, at the c...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Layla Martinez' WOODWORM (Tr Sophie Hughes & Annie McDermott; Narr Raquel Beattie)

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How a novelist handles tension is everything in horror and suspense. Most of what I encounter in these genres lets tension build and build a...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Ethan Rutherford's NORTH SUN or THE VOYAGE OF THE WHALESHIP ESTHER

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We're told not to judge books by their covers, and to that I mostly hold, but occasionally I must make an exception. When this beauty st...