The ‘Southwest Review’ launches New Pony Press

The ‘Southwest Review’ launches New Pony Press

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Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo review – in memory of the missing | Poetry

Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo review – in memory of the missing | Poetry

This collection is a debut – it is also an ending. The poet Gboyega Odubanjo died tragically almost a year ago and the final edit of this extraordinary and arresting book has... Read more »
The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville review – pulpy hijinks | Science fiction books

The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville review – pulpy hijinks | Science fiction books

The coolest contemporary movie star, Keanu Reeves, added to his portfolio in 2021 by creating a comic book series called BRZRKR, co-written by Reeves with Matt Kindt and illustrated by Ron Garney.... Read more »
Cloudland Revisited by SJ Perelman review – the humorist who broke the mould | Essays

Cloudland Revisited by SJ Perelman review – the humorist who broke the mould | Essays

What do TS Eliot, the Coen brothers, Dorothy Parker, Mel Brooks, Clive James and Woody Allen have in common? The answer is that they all admired SJ Perelman, the droll New York... Read more »
Cloudland Revisited by SJ Perelman review – the humorist who broke the mould | Essays

Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers review – the myriad faces of a musical maverick | Music books

“I am not a biographer, in the usual definition of that term,” Ann Powers writes in her introduction to Travelling, describing herself instead as “a critic, a kind of mapmaker”. Her book... Read more »
Track Record by George the Poet audiobook review – a heartfelt blend of the personal and political | George the Poet

Track Record by George the Poet audiobook review – a heartfelt blend of the personal and political | George the Poet

This memoir-cum-polemic by George the Poet, AKA George Mpanga, opens at a party attended by the author where a white man starts preaching about race to a group of Black guests and... Read more »
Sister in Law by Harriet Wistrich review – in defence of women | Autobiography and memoir

Sister in Law by Harriet Wistrich review – in defence of women | Autobiography and memoir

In 2011, Harriet Wistrich got a call about Sally Challen, who had been convicted of the murder of her husband, Richard. Sally had bludgeoned him to death with a hammer at their Surrey home... Read more »
The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville review – pulpy hijinks | Science fiction books

Balzac’s Paris: The City as Human Comedy by Eric Hazan review – street spirit | History books

Eric Hazan, a lifelong Parisian who died in June, wrote several books about his hometown, with a particular focus on the class politics of the built environment. In Balzac’s Paris he revisits... Read more »
The Wendy Award by Walter Scott review – the voice of a bewildered generation | Fiction

The Wendy Award by Walter Scott review – the voice of a bewildered generation | Fiction

My enjoyment of Walter Scott’s brilliant Wendy books, in which a millennial arts graduate with a self-destructive streak as wide as the Yukon River pings like a pinball around various Canadian cities,... Read more »
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