Announcing our re-launch!
Dear friend, After a hiatus, the Glasgow Review of Books is back! We will be re-launching the title as an online review journal in early July 2023. And we need your help! About:… Continue reading
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SUBMISSIONS CLOSED!
Dear Readers and Writers, Submissions are currently closed, but will re-open later in the year. We’ve got some exciting plans for 2020 – keep an eye on our Twitter page for developments! Happy… Continue reading
THE LAST CHANT – A SHORT STORY BY CHIN LI
He’d been walking for a long time, from one end of the world to the other end. Starting as an old worn-out self, ending up as a mere handful of sand. But still,… Continue reading
THE NOSTALGIA OF ‘MY BRILLIANT FRIEND’: FEVER, FICTION, and MEMOIR
By Grazia Ietto Gillies The adaptation ‘Oh! Le aste, le aste’. My reaction is immediate.[1] The show brought it all back. On screen is a page of the school workbook of six-year old… Continue reading
I WAS HERE: ‘SOUVENIR’ BY ROLF POTTS
Rolf Potts Souvenir by Laura Waddell Recently I was in Paris for the first time in over a decade, and through a sense of obligation, spent the last of my energy walking by the… Continue reading
THE DEFIANT SPIRIT OF A GENERATION: Hamid Ismailov’s ‘The Devil’s Dance’, trans. Donald Rayfield
Hamid Ismailov, The Devil’s Dance, translated by Donald Rayfield (Tilted Axis Press, 2018) By Robin Munby “The English have a game they call kir-ket”, says Muborak, a well-travelled Bukharan Jew, about a third… Continue reading
NOT A WHITE HEAT: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Late Essays: 2006–2017’
J.M. Coetzee, Late Essays: 2006–2017 (Harvill Secker, 2017) Reviewed by Daniel Davis Wood Has J.M. Coetzee become an anxious man? Never mind the cool, terse prose style that colours all his work, or… Continue reading
THE DOORS – EXCERPT FROM A BOOK BY COLIN CAMPBELL ROBINSON
This is the end, my friend. Jim Morrison Only when he writes ‘I’ does he become ‘I’ so he’s… Continue reading
READS OF THE YEAR 2017: Andrew Lees
It sounds a bit pretentious these days but I still do believe that medicine is a calling rather than a profession or a job. In order to be a good neurologist you need… Continue reading
EIBF 2017: TRAVELOGUE WITH A TRAVELOGUE OF TRAVELOGUES* – Outriders
This is one of a number of pieces covering events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which runs from 12th–28th August 2017 at Charlotte Square Gardens and George Street, Edinburgh. The events ‘Outriders: Mariana Enriquez & Kevin… Continue reading