Age of Blight
“If you revel in the uncanny, this is a collection you will not want to miss.” Sauleha Kamal reviews ‘The Age of Blight’, by Kristine Ong Muslim.
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Simple Complex Shapes
“There is a morphous quality to the words in ‘Simple Complex Shapes’: they refuse to stay put.” Jamie Osborn reviews Vahni Capildeo’s latest collection.
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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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“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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Kissing Angles
Jacob Silkstone reviews Sarah Fletcher’s debut pamphlet.
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Karachi, You’re Killing Me!
“As far as debut novels go, this one is pretty fantastic… Plus, it has a cat.” Ghausia Rashid Salam reviews Saba Imtiaz’s first novel.
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The Drugs Don’t Work
Rowland Bagnall on ‘the art of not quite saying what you mean’ in Ben Lerner’s ‘Leaving the Atocha Station’.
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Both Splendour and Darkness
Maliha Iftekhar reviews Vineetha Mokkil’s ‘A Happy Place and Other Stories’.
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