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28 April 2020

THE SEA OR THE MOUNTAIN: Two Histories of Environmental Thinking
19 December 2019

MANIC EPISODES: ‘I AM DYNAMITE’ BY SUE PRIDEAUX
9 September 2019

THE NOSTALGIA OF ‘MY BRILLIANT FRIEND’: FEVER, FICTION, and MEMOIR
18 April 2018

HISTORY’S MESH: ‘Ghosts on the Shore: Travels Along Germany’s Baltic Coast’ by Paul Scraton
15 November 2017

SOME THOUGHTS ON ‘PROTEST’
29 March 2017

A TROUBLING TRANSFORMATION: A. Igoni Barrett’s ‘Blackass’
16 March 2017

TO TRY OR NOT TO TRY: ‘Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories After Cervantes and Shakespeare’
27 February 2017

THE TWO ANACHRONISMS: An Ecocritical Response to a Review – by Steve Mentz
31 December 2016

READS OF THE YEAR 2016: Catriona Knapman
30 December 2016

READS OF THE YEAR 2016: Michael McGill
30 December 2016

READS OF THE YEAR 2016: Mark West
29 December 2016

READS OF THE YEAR 2016: Tom White
21 December 2016

READS OF THE YEAR 2016: Anne Kniggendorf
8 December 2016

ON THE AFTERLIFE OF CZECH SURREALISM: Vítězlav Nezval’s ‘The Absolute Gravedigger’ translated by Stephan Delbos and Tereza Novická
27 October 2016

RIPOSTES AND ADDENDUMS: TEJU COLE’S ‘KNOWN AND STRANGE THINGS’
18 August 2016

Ana Blandiana and Hölderlin’s Eternal Question
29 July 2016

AN EXCERPT FROM CATRIONA KNAPMAN’S EDINBURGH FRINGE SHOW ‘OUT ON THE WORLD’
8 May 2016

KIRUNA’S CHOICE: Dominic Hinde’s ‘A Utopia Like Any Other: Inside the Swedish Model’
10 March 2016

THINGS INVISIBLE TO SEE: Russia’s vanishing act on Ukraine and the country’s literary renaissance
18 December 2015

IMPERSONAL UTOPIA: Joanna Walsh’s ‘Hotel’
3 December 2015

BERLINER UNWILLE: Nicolas Hausdorf and Alexander Goller’s ‘Super Structural Berlin’
27 October 2015

IN THE NINETIES, WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG: Stuart David’s ‘In the All-Night Café’
3 August 2015

THE HIGHEST EXPRESSION OF THE DIVINE: Anne Cuneo’s ‘Tregian’s Ground’, translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie and Roland Glasser
30 July 2015

ENGELS AMONGST THE HIPSTERS: DW Gibson’s “The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century”