Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside

Nicole Mansour reviews Quincy Carroll’s debut novel, an exploration of cultural otherness and symbolic differences among expatriates in foreign communities. Quincy Continue reading →

Welcome to Lagos

Timothy Ogene reviews Onuzo’s brand-new 2017 Faber novel, discussing intertextuality, gratuitous representations of African poverty and ‘what it means to Continue reading →

The High Mountains of Portugal

Jeremy Simmons reviews Yann Martel’s latest, praising the novel’s magical realism as a new form of modern mythology. Yann Martel, Continue reading →

Swimming in Hong Kong

Christopher Hill reviews Stephanie Han’s new collection of short stories exploring the nature of identity and the concept of home.  Continue reading →

Ema the Captive

Christopher Urban reviews the latest translation of prolific Argentine writer César Aira who wrote but never revised, producing more than Continue reading →

White Sands

Nicole Mansour reviews Geoff Dyer’s new novel White Sands, giving a appraisal of its literary merits. Geoff Dyer, White Sands: Experiences from the Continue reading →

The Divine Madness of Phillip K. Dick

Sci-fi novelist Douglas Lain, nominated for the Phillip K. Dick Prize earlier in the year, reviews the latest OUP text Continue reading →

The Second Year of Jianfeng – 建豐二年: 新中國烏有史

Yunwen Gao reviews a controversial new Chinese alternative history novel and explores the political situation in Hong Kong and China today. Continue reading →