Blind Spot

Teju Cole's first book-length meditation on photography explores how his dream-like, jetlagged images are connected by tangents to the universal in all human cultures.

Criticism 12th September 2017

Sympathy

Olivia Sudjic's debut novel recognises online life as an active and creative culture. Like personal writing, its emotional highs and ominous shortcomings are tied up in an all-consuming act of self-fashioning.

Criticism 23rd August 2017

Kill All Normies

We are in the midst of a raging culture war defined by cruelty, extremism and intolerance. Angela Nagle's new book is a timely and insightful report from the internet battlefield.

Criticism 3rd August 2017

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

China Miéville’s portrayal of the Bolsheviks' rise to power is a captivating and inspirational description of the revolutionary moment, when everything is possible.

Criticism 13th July 2017

To Be A Machine

Is the deathless age of the machine upon us?

Criticism 13th June 2017

Beauty in Broken Things

Graham Allen & Alvy Carragher take differing routes towards truth and beauty in two recent collections.

Blog Post Criticism 17th May 2017

Smashing The Mirror

William Wall introduces Dave Lordan’s new essay collection, The Word in Flames

Blog Post Criticism 30th November 2016

September, October

Sarah Ladipo Manyika's Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is a work operating within the memento mori tradition of death being ever present—and closer, closer still.

Blog Post Criticism 7th November 2016

Hunting on the Boundary

Deborah Levy's seventh novel is an investigation into the threads of relationship and the primitive, enduring connections between body and mind.

Blog Post Criticism 4th November 2016

Passing Open Windows

Mia Gallagher explores the ‘still, beautiful, profound’ autofiction of Rachel Cusk's 'Transit'.

Criticism 3rd November 2016

Hallucinating Vividly for Hours

Doireann Ní Ghríofa gets inside the head of Eimear McBride's second novel.

Criticism 1st November 2016

Notes From The Void

Mike McCormack's 'Solar Bones' finds beauty and joy in the interplay of the routine and the extraordinary; of quotidian and mystic.

Criticism 29th September 2016

Ghost Moon

Criticism Issue 28, Volume 2: Summer 2014

Inquisition Lane

Criticism Issue 34, Volume 2: Summer 2016

New Selected Poems

Criticism Issue 34, Volume 2: Summer 2016

A Hand Reached Down To Guide Me

Criticism Issue 32, Volume 2: Winter 2015

A God in Every Stone / Fallen

Criticism Issue 30, Volume 2: Spring 2015

Wallflowers

Criticism Issue 30, Volume 2: Spring 2015

Memory Theatre

Criticism Issue 30, Volume 2: Spring 2015

How To Be Both

Criticism Issue 29, Volume 2: Winter 2014

X

Criticism Issue 29, Volume 2: Winter 2014

Waiting For The Bullet

Criticism Issue 29, Volume 2: Winter 2014

Another Great Day At Sea

Criticism Issue 28, Volume 2: Summer 2014

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