book-reviews
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Review — ‘Flesh’ by David Szalay: Bare-Bones Panoramic of One Man’s Life Disappoints
David Szalay’s first novel and 2025 Booker Prize Winner has all the makings of a sharp and unflinching examination of male alienation and immigrant life. So why was I left cold? Continue reading
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Review — ‘Intermezzo’: Age-Gap Romance Suffers Under the Weight of its Pathos
Rooney’s fourth novel is an insightful but strained, incessant exploration of millennial and gen Z relationships Continue reading
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‘Emily the Criminal’; or, On the normalisation of crime
John Patton Ford’s thriller is a tense depiction of survival in a morally bankrupt world Continue reading
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