A Reading of Nick Cave’s And the Ass Saw the Angel
Nick Cave’s 1989 novel ‘And the Ass Saw the Angel’ is a tumultuous lamentation upon Euchrid’s (the central character) discontent with his...
Find Me: A Book Review
Find Me by André Aciman, 2019 (Cover: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) I love love. Before I set about expressing my unversed and uneducated...
An American Marriage: A Book Review
An American Marriage tells the story of newlyweds Celestial and Roy. At first glance, they embody the American dream; a young business...
Max Porter's 'Lanny': ‘In Came the Sound of a Song, Warm on his Creaturely Breath….’
Not far from London, in an unnamed sleepy English village, Max Porter invites us to step into his dark green folk tale about a boy and an...
Venice: Eat, Pray, Love (But Mainly Eat)
This article was previously published in the special edition, VENICE (July 2019). “I wish Giovanni would kiss me,” is the first line of...
On the Edge of the Arctic Landscape in Icelandic Crime Fiction
This article was previously published in Issue 20, ISLANDS (March 2019). Stranded in the North Atlantic and battered by harsh winds and...