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Upon a sofa, wrapped in wool,...
CabVol @ Monkey Barrel, EdinburghA fringe fling is the backbone for a mischievous set with deft jokes and a fresh perspective but some of this material needs another draftAyo Adene...
Anthony Cummins reviews
There are two kinds of people in the world, said Søren Kierkegaard: those who write, and those who don’t. Nunez, best known as a novelist, writes up a storm with her first story, “...
The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio; Short Circuit by Wolf Haas; Cosmos by Lucia Odoom; The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest by Alejandra KamiyaThe Red Book of Farewells by...
Celebrities and social pressure may just be pushing young people back to novels
Sara Lawrence reviews
Ordinary People Like Us is Kelly Ana Morey’s final novel, published this week on the anniversary of her death. Catherine Chidgey writes about what it was like to complete the unfin...
In conversation for Best Fit, Emma-Lee Moss and Kathryn Williams go undercover as musicians at a literary festival.
THEATRE is about speaking the truth, however raw or unpalatable it may be. And I believe I have done that with my Fringe show No Daddy, I’m Not Going to the Gymkhana.
Djamel White’s first novel has made the Booker Prize long list. He spoke to The Journal about the novel and his future plans.
You don’t realise you’ve been a walking stereotype until you stop being one
Introducing the main characters of “The Axe,” the narrator—omniscient, omnipotent, and jaded—suddenly pauses: “But none of that matters, because these aren’t real people, and it’s...
As the paperback edition of her memoir Frankly hits bookshops, Nicola Sturgeon has revealed she’s working on a crime novel about a former First Minister with a dark secret. With sp...
In its skewering of London’s literary egos, Gwendoline Riley’s The Palm House takes a step away from her previous parent-dominated novels, but it too is told by a middle-aged woman...
A twentysomething Scottish couple care for their autistic son in the bleak follow-up to Only Here, Only NowFrazer and Caitlin have been emotionally entwined since schooldays. Now i...
The author on an encounter with the CIA, an embarrassing moment in church, and longing to hold hands with David AttenboroughBorn in Glasgow, Andrew O’Hagan, 58, studied at the Univ...
A sad, heartbroken woman becomes obsessed with a famous writer in a continuously humorous and touching story from the Sorrow and Bliss authorThe protagonist of Meg Mason’s new book...
In the Review’s June 25 issue, Joe Dunthorne writes about a recent oral history of the New York School poets and poses himself a challenge: “How to analyze a poetics of irreverence...
Blunt and rich in description, Rachel Cusk unravels a gentle critique of fame, celebrity and the constructedness of reality in her latest novel. The post Is this the real life? A c...
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghWith the air of a hungover postmortem, Richardson gives a head-spinning account of an encounter with an older comedianIf you’re partial to a bit of go...
Whether Elf Lyons’ high-concept Hollywood throwback, Kate Dehnert’s disorientating rave or Ele McKenzie’s Bob Dylan fantasy, heartbreak fuels fine humour at the festivalBreakups. W...
The poet and novelist on the power of fairytales, being inspired by Frank O’Hara and the joys of Doris LessingMy earliest reading memory Reading On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Mil...
A teacher’s private anxieties are subtly combined with political events in this Booker-listed tale set in coastal MassachusettsArtie Dam is a much-loved history teacher from coasta...
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