Editor Rebecca DeWald travelled to Argentina and took books of and about Argentine literature with her, a literature which is receiving more and more attention in English at the moment. In this thread,… Continue reading
21 Revolutions: New Writing and Prints inspired by the Collection at Glasgow Women’s Library, edited by Adele Patrick (Glasgow: Freight Books, 2014) by Amy Bromley In his ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History,’… Continue reading
We are very pleased to announce that the Glasgow Review of Books is now soliciting submissions of poetry for online publication! We welcome Samuel Tongue to our team as our new poetry editor.… Continue reading
William Scott The Model of Poesy ed. by Gavin Alexander (Cambridge University Press, 2013) by Matthew Blaiden “[R]ight poets,” says Sir Philip Sidney in The Defence of Poesy, “do merely make to imitate, and… Continue reading
This piece continues a conversation between the Glasgow Review of Books and Punctum Books about the possibilities and problems for scholarship in the current intellectual, cultural and economic climate in both the US and UK,… Continue reading
David Peace Red or Read (Faber and Faber, 2013) by Joe Kennedy A phrase echoed banefully through David Peace’s Red Riding tetralogy. “The North, where we do what we want!” condensed a negation of secular… Continue reading
Hesiod Theogony and Works and Days, translated by C. S. Morrissey (Talon Books, 2012) by Calum Gardner Our view of the ancient Greek religion is riddled with blind spots. We think we understand this… Continue reading
Esther Allen and Susan Bernofsky (eds.), In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What it Means (Columbia University Press, 2013) by Rebecca DeWald When Dante and Virgil arrive at the ninth circle of… Continue reading
Nathan Hamilton (ed.) Dear World & Everyone In It: New Poetry in the UK (2013, Bloodaxe) It’s probably true that the UK poetry world is richer, more varied and more vital than ever, which is… Continue reading
Craig Dworkin No Medium (2013, MIT Press) A series of brilliant (re)readings of works blank, erased, clear or silent, from the fictional collection of poems at the start of Cocteau’s Orphée to artist Nick Thurston’s erased copy… Continue reading
