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From Kafka’s “The Trial” to Orwell’s “1984”
21 days ago
Offseason by Avigayl Sharp review – wry comedy of a frazzled teacher ⊖
Sharp’s deadpan debut reads like a gen Z update on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, playfully skewering modern literary tropes
The unnamed 28-year-old narrator of Avigayl Sharp’s debut novel teaches lit…
4 months ago
Silence and Cry review – deeply strange 1960s erotic ballet meditating on Hungary’s history and politics ⊖⊖
Director Miklós Jancsó creates a bizarre psychodrama set after the fall of the 1919 Hungarian Soviet republic, encompassing postwar trauma and erotic overtones
Miklós Jancsó’s mysterious film from 196…
5 months ago
‘Like Kafka by way of Pedro Almodóvar’: 10 debut novels to look out for in 2026 ⊕
A Pulitzer finalist is among the first-time novelists, in tales of love, a surreal prison, teen murder and a tradwife
Belgrave Road
Manish Chauhan (Faber, January)
An affecting tale of loneliness and lo…
Ice by Jacek Dukaj review – a dazzling journey to an alternate Siberia ⊕
The 1908 Tunguska comet changes the direction of history and gives rise to a weird new reality in this acclaimed epic from the Polish author
The opening sentence of this remarkable novel announces tha…
10 months ago
Militsioner – finally a game that asks, is it illegal to use an apple to bribe a giant policeman? ○
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Thief: The Dark Project converges with Kafka, Gogol and Tamagotichis in this immersive sim with a giant personality
Planning is half the fun in immersive sims. Titles such as Thief and Dishonored drop…
11 months ago
Richard Flanagan: ‘When I reread Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop it had corked badly’ ○
The Booker-winning author on taking inspiration from Kafka, and a youthful passion for Jackie Collins
My earliest reading memory
My mother reading Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows to me – and …
12 months ago
The best recent translated fiction – review roundup ○
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The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies; Lovers of Franz K by Burhan Sönmez; Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski; Waist Deep by Linea Maja Ernst
The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies, translated by Na…
13 months ago
‘Touching the soul is all that matters!’ The outrageous genius of Barrie Kosky and his Wagner phantasmagoria ○
He put Carmen in a gorilla suit and had Das Rheingold’s Erda represented by an 82-year-old naked woman. What are the the director’s plans for his edge-of-the-seat Die Walküre?
From the Muppet Show to …
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