I Will Grow, I Will Bear Fruit
“This is a novel that dwells in and grasps at the ephemeral…” Jamie Osborn reviews Payam Feili’s dream-like “I Will Grow, I Will Bear Fruit”.
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Submission
“I really wanted to argue with Houellebecq, so much so that I had to scribble little notes in the margins to formulate my dissent…” Audrey Ryback on ‘Submission’, Michel Houellebecq’s latest succès de scandale.
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Unexpectedly: Translating Manuel Bandeira’s ‘Profundamente’ as a Group
“Ten of us had sat down to translate this poem by Manuel Bandeira, and here we were, stumped by the very first word, the title…” Tom Gatehouse on translating Manuel Bandeira’s ‘Profundamente’ into English.
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“Being a Modern Indian is Hard Work”
“Hasan’s novel compels us to confront the inanity of our own classed existences…” Nandini Dhar on Anjum Hasan’s ‘The Cosmopolitans’
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Smrtište
Maida Salkanović reviews Amir OsmanÄević’s “poignant testimony of wasted human lives and the disrupted social structures war leaves behind.”
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Alone in the crowd: The novels of John Dos Passos
“One hundred years and another world war later, this vision of what it means to look for meaning in a modern city remains strikingly parallel…” Jess McHugh revisits the novels of John Dos Passos.
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Kissing Angles
Jacob Silkstone reviews Sarah Fletcher’s debut pamphlet.
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Whatever Happened to Verse Drama?
Richard O’Brien examines the history of the verse drama, and asks whether the decline of blank verse has to be inevitable…
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A Poem I Cannot Write
Flora de Falbe starts our ‘Poets on Poets’ series by reflecting on sexism and censorship in organised religion.
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Diary: Arno Camenisch in Brooklyn, New York
Sauleha Kamal on an evening with Swiss writer Arno Camenisch at Book Court in Brooklyn.
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