isolation

The skull beneath the skin: Ghost Pains, by Jessi Jezewska Stevens, reviewed

9 March 2024 9:00 am

Pain lurks below the surface of these sardonic short stories. Happiness is fleeting, and ‘we carry death within us like a stone within a fruit’, one narrator observes

A study of isolation: The Late Americans, by Brandon Taylor, reviewed

24 June 2023 9:00 am

A group of students in Iowa City meet in bars and seminar rooms, but, separated by class, race and wealth, their connection is only fleeting

More menace – and magic – on the moors

18 November 2017 9:00 am

Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney was one of the surprise stand-outs of last year, and a worthy winner of the…

The making of a novelist

22 March 2014 9:00 am

Karl Ove Knausgaard was eight months old when his family moved to the island of Tromøya; he left it aged…