The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #5)
another doris lessing quintet concludes
Tag: Book Review
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
we cannot equate hope with idiocy and expect to ever be happy
Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon
a (perhaps accidental) anti-gossip tract
Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against The World by 😇 Jarett Kobek 😇
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
I, Nerd by Max Sydney Smith
another nice book review descends into dissociated left-wing raving
Under Country by Jonathan Trigell
contemporary fiction on the last quarter of the 20th century
My Dead Book by Nate Lippens
breathtaking book on death
The Passengers by Will Ashon
an excellent book
The Angry Brigade by James Graham
eww i read some centrist art by mistake
The Angry Brigade by Alan Burns
unexpectedly, one of the best books i’ve ever read
On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera
some notes on a book of notes about lighthouses
The Government of No One by Ruth Kinna
anarchism is hope
Winter Journey by Eva Figes
1967 and old men are walking in winter
Thread Ripper by Amalie Smith
a gorgeous book
POETRY MONTH: Rewriting Stella by Dan Tuttle
~800 plot-driven sonnets, anyone???
POETRY MONTH: Caviar by Sarah Fletcher
intellectual poems that don’t become impersonal
POETRY MONTH: Broken Sleep Anthology 2019
broken sleep’s second annual anthology
POETRY MONTH: 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
POETRY MONTH: Liver Mush by Graham Irvin
“People eat what they can. They love what can love them back.”
POETRY MONTH: Dreich #3
Today we’re (I’m) looking at another poetry magazine. I’m not quite sure if this one is a magazine or ifContinue Reading
POETRY MONTH: Acorn by Yoko Ono
is “art writing” poetry? / is “poetry” art writing?
POETRY MONTH: Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head by Warsan Shire
incredibly good popular poetry from Beyoncé’s collaborator
POETRY MONTH: Waiting Room by Poppy Cockburn
powerful, direct, dignified poems
POETRY MONTH: The Towns We Leave Hate Us Most by Aislinn Evans
excellent poetry & performance piece
POETRY MONTH: Lyme by Jared A. Carnie
some great love poetry surrounded by trepidatious discussion of someone else’s illness
POETRY MONTH: Produce Poetry Or Die. by Narada Voux Sanders
realising i read poetry looking for poets, not poems
POETRY MONTH: Rotten Milk by Karina Bush
latest chapbook from one of my favourite writers
POETRY MONTH: [partial reading from years ago of] Float by Anne Carson
a partial reading from 4/5 years ago, previously unpublished
POETRY MONTH: reviews of scott manley hadley
you been doing all this dope [blogging] / You ain’t had a chance to show ’em what time it is
POETRY MONTH: The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove
a masterpiece of contemporary sonnetteering
POETRY MONTH: ANTHOLOGY 2018 by Broken Sleep Books
an excellent anthology from friend of the blog broken sleep books
POETRY MONTH: HEROIN HAIKUS by William Wantling
a gorgeous chapbook kicks off POETRY MONTH
POETRY MONTH: poetry reviews from the vaults
before a month of all new all poetry reviews, check out a selection from the TotN vaults!
Journey to the Alcarria by Camilo José Cela
uninspiring 1940s travel writing
Fireship/Mother and Child by Joan D. Vinge
a novella as boring as my life rn then a novella that’s good
Babel by Alan Burns
a middle class british heterosexual Howl
Celebrations by Alan Burns
Alan Burns’ underwhelming follow-up to Europe After The Rain
The Experimentalists by Joe Darlington
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
I Is Another by Jon Fosse (Septology III – V)
an excellent novel (& a guest cat in the pic!!!)
a proper marriage by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #2)
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
micropost – Plastic Emotions by Shiromi Pinto
brief comments on a perfect novel
micropost – Planet of Exile by Ursula K Le Guin
an excellent novella from le guin
My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi
a failure of intent
The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin
pacy thriller; terrible bookstore; hot summer heat
The Other Name by Jon Fosse (Septology I-II)
slow fiction with relentless structure
Martha Quest by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #1)
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters by Katie Goh
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
Triumph Of The Now 