Editorial reviews

About The Little Snake

In “The Little Snake,” the swift emotional slippages click along, one after another, sentence after sentence, like an intricate concatenation of rainbow-bright dominoes.

About We Begin in Gladness

By overlooking questions of social justice and the politics of language, Teicher offers us a portrait of these poets that, however well rendered, is nevertheless incomplete.

About Invisible

Truthful narratives demand complexity. Stephen L. Carter has revived his grandmother’s voice when we most need it, and with utmost urgency.

About In Our Mad and Furious City

His novel is weirdly somnolent given how portentously it primes us for danger, for the burning of mosques and blood in the streets.

About A Rebel in Gaza

The world would be poorer without Ghoul’s voice, without her warmth, her fury and her laughter.

About Future Politics

It is mind-boggling enough just to contemplate the vastness of the challenge. To have written it all down so lucidly, engagingly and succinctly is a formidable achievement.

About Ghost Trees

In Ghost Trees Gilbert rails gently against global warming and globalisation, and laments the decline of natural diversity and the loss of community that, he says, comes with it.

About Bringing Down the Colonel

her book is a lucid guide to a story that became far more consequential than the titillation supplied by its salacious bits.

About Evening in Paradise

Evening in Paradise proves that Berlin's generous, beautiful spirit will endure in the literary world for decades to come.

About The Circuit

His prose becomes lyrical as he transmits the shot-by-shot drama of the match. It’s what makes “The Circuit” such a joy to read: a poet’s love song to the game of tennis.

About The Boneless Mercies

I adored it and absolutely everything about it and I hope beyond all hope that we're able to return to this world somewhere down the line!

About Sadie

Sadie is an attempt to open up the dialogue about why girls run away. I know all this in my mind and admire what Ms. Summers achieves with her story.

About The Flight of the Maidens

Gardam’s ability to bring people so fully to life, in such vivid detail, never fails to delight. Such vivid people and dialogue — more than many of her books, I could imagine this as a film.

About The Penalty Area

The Penalty Area is charming, and it’s easy to imagine it being a film. If you need a bookish boost, you can’t go wrong with this story.

About The Hazards of Good Fortune

Overall, a smart, sharp-eyed, entertaining, engrossing story.

About The End of the End of the Earth

It’s the work of a writer at the top of his game – limber and lovely, delivering deep insights with delicacy and grace – and it poignantly makes the only case for climate action that has any chance of succeeding: that there is so much worth living for.

About Evening in Paradise

What does calm Berlin’s mind is nature, which creates a sustained pause in her work. Whenever her women feel despair, they find comfort in poplars, bougainvillea, hibiscus and gardenias. They plant seeds, but then they’re on the move again and rarely get to see them flourish.

About Slip of a Fish

The work is original, ambitious and challenging, submerging the reader in the strangeness of an anomalous mind, an aqueous medium where language is refracted into mazes of shifting meanings.

About Hardly Children

A challenging and unsettling collection that heralds a promising talent.

About Deadly Camargue

The leisurely journey to the solution of Rademacher’s second Provence whodunit is adorned with droll characterizations, pungent dialogue, and zingy chapter titles.