READS OF THE YEAR 2018: A.M. BAKALAR
Since the birth of my daughter two years ago, my reading time has diminished dramatically. I had to become very selective in what I read, which is probably a good thing, considering the… Continue reading
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READS OF THE YEAR 2018: Stephanie Green
Luck is the Hook by Imtiaz Dharker (Bloodaxe, 2018) is my stand-out book of poetry this year. Lyrical with a compassionate humanity, Dharker’s poems have a piercing, deceptive simplicity of image and language, particularly… Continue reading
READS OF THE YEAR 2018: MARIA SLEDMERE
2018 was the year I started to read obsessively, hungrily, like a child again. Maybe this was because the internet was giving me nausea; maybe because I turned towards authors whose work not… Continue reading
READS OF THE YEAR 2018: Lynnda Wardle
Deborah Levy Things I don’t want to know (Bloomsbury, 2014) and The Cost of Living (Penguin, 2018). The best reading experiences are journeys; books that move you from one place to another, their… Continue reading
READS OF THE YEAR 2018: Marta Dziurosz
Lena Andersson Acts of Infidelity (translated into English by Saskia Vogel) Just like Andersson’s previous book, Wilful Disregard, this is a story about unrequited love – but not as you know it. Acts of Infidelity can be… Continue reading
READS OF THE YEAR 2018: Callum McSorley
Dave Cook and Craig Paton Killtopia #1 The first volume of new cyberpunk comic series Killtopia by Scottish writer and artist team Dave Cook and Craig Paton is a joyous celebration of the history… Continue reading
READS OF THE YEAR 2018: Victoria Min-Yi Wang
Ilse Aichinger Der Gefesselte This 1953 collection of short stories remains true to the spirit of the short story in that the narratives are almost certain to end realistically, often, inevitably, in death,… Continue reading
NEW POETRY BY SHERI BENNING
SHERI BENNING‘s third collection of poetry, The Season’s Vagrant Light: New and Selected Poems, was published by Carcanet Press in 2015. She’s published two books in Canada: Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books) and Earth After Rain (Thistledown Press).… Continue reading
READS OF THE YEAR 2018: Daniel Bosch
My critical thinking courses usually center on analysis of visual objects, and this means that twice every year, fall and spring, I re-read Ways of Seeing, John Berger‘s 1972 multi-modal masterpiece avant la lettre, and every time I… Continue reading
READS OF THE YEAR 2018: Rebecca DeWald
Hans Fallada, Jeder stirbt für sich allein (Aufbau, 2018 [1947]) My first Read of 2018 is also the first book I read in 2018, which is a blessing and a curse: a good,… Continue reading