Bridge of Words

Paul Webb joins the HKRB to review a new book on the Babel-like nineteenth-century language of Esperanto and its unusual Continue reading →

The Slow Professor

Stephen Lee Naish reviews a new book about speed and academia, discussing representations of the university on film in comparison with Continue reading →

We Want Everything

Steffanie Ling reviews Nanni Balestrini’s new Verso novel of Italy’s revolutionary 1969, discussing Marxism and worker solidarity then and now. Continue reading →

Track Changes

Francis Russell returns to the HKRB to review a literary history of word processing, discussing what it means to be a Continue reading →

Foucault in Iran

Angus Reoch reviews Foucault in Iran:, arguing that it is never useless to revolt and grappling with the contradictions of Western Continue reading →

Trainwreck

Stephen Lee Naish reviews Sady Doyle’s book on the public hatred of the likes of Lindsay Lohan, reflecting on Black Mirror and what Continue reading →

The Storyteller: Tales Out of Loneliness

Geoff Tibbs provides an extended review of one of the most important publications of the year, the Walter Benjamin stories. Continue reading →

Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers

Nicolas Hausdorf, author of a renowned ‘superstructural tourist guide to Berlin,’ reviews a new literary guide to that great city by Continue reading →