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The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish review – a gripping struggle for selfhood
The American award winner brings his laser-like focus to the story of a teen and his terminally ill mother
Chris Power
22, Jun, 2022 @8:00 AM
Devil House by John Darnielle review – mysteries and rumours
A true-crime author investigates an occult double murder in this metafictional puzzle from the Mountain Goats frontman
Chris Power
05, May, 2022 @10:00 AM
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor review – snakes in Eden
A Mexican gated community offers no protection in this chilling novel by the author of Hurricane Season
Chris Power
12, Mar, 2022 @7:30 AM
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura review – difficulties of interpretation
Tipped by Barack Obama, this is an addictively mysterious novel about a woman adrift in her own life
Chris Power
28, Jul, 2021 @6:30 AM
On the Road to Bridget Jones: five books that define each generation
Blake Morrison on boomers, Chris Power on Gen X, Megan Nolan on millennials and Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé on Gen Z … which books shaped your generation?
Blake Morrison, Chris Power, Megan Nolan Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé and Steven Poole
19, Jun, 2021 @7:00 AM
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez review – unsettling tales
A gripping collection that draws on the Argentinian military dictatorship to mix daylight horrors with supernatural shocks
Chris Power
07, Apr, 2021 @8:00 AM
Stuart Dybek: bungee jumping through the trapdoors of time
Unaccountably little-known outside the US, his stories take the reader from a carefully observed midwest into a past that is very much alive
Chris Power
05, Nov, 2020 @12:01 PM
Short and sweet: the best stories to read right now
Thought-provoking, intense and consumed in one sitting, do short stories make for a perfect reading experience? Chris Power finds out, and shares the all-time greats
Chris Power
18, Jul, 2020 @9:00 AM
We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time by AL Kennedy review – telling without showing
From a row at a zoo to the tale of a Holocaust survivor – the promise of these short stories is deadened by detail
Chris Power
18, Jun, 2020 @9:00 AM
Pew by Catherine Lacey review – a foreboding fable
A silent stranger of indeterminate age, gender and ethnicity holds up a mirror to the oddness and hypocrisy of a small American town
Chris Power
22, May, 2020 @6:30 AM
I wish more people would read … A Scrap of Time by Ida Fink
These tightly focused stories of Jewish life in Nazi-occupied Poland should be be remembered, as vital historical witness and as great literature
Chris Power
08, May, 2020 @8:00 AM
Collected Short Fiction and Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs by Gerald Murnane – review
Self-obsessed but never self-indulgent, in his genre-melting short stories and essays the cult Australian author Gerald Murnane creates an extraordinary universality
Chris Power
04, Mar, 2020 @8:58 AM
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