Soldier hits his target but mission fails
SOMETIMES a book can be great for reasons other than literary merit.
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Flight of fantasy crash lands
AMERICAN author Shane Jones might have achieved something unique in literature with Light Boxes.
Halfway to Hemingway
EARLY Hemingway invented a style of austere, mannerless simplicity pregnant with larger meaning that became the default prose register of the American century.
Between science and sanctity
IT is not often that we encounter devout American Christians who write literary fiction.
Desperate parable on a lost utopia
THE imitator or maker of an image knows “nothing of existence”, says Socrates in Plato’s Republic: “He knows appearances only.”
Transcendence of history and homeland
WHAT do the writers assembled in The Perfume River have to tell us about Vietnam?
Minutiae and the miniskirt
FIFTEEN years ago, a young Scotswoman found that her writer-boyfriend had slit his own throat after attempting to hack off his hand with a meat-cleaver.
A spiritual superiority
DON’T, whatever you do, mistake David Musgrave’s first extended prose fiction for a novel.
Brethren grim, lost souls of the streets
THE experimentalism of Jon McGregor’s third novel comes across as something shocking.
The healing power of narrative
Moonlight is an autobiographical account of surviving breast cancer and is also passionately bookish and idiosyncratic in content and form.
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