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- Aug 15, 2026
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Reviews in brief: The Smiths, Offseason and Sail Away Land (opens the original)
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The Smiths by Michael Bracewell (White Rabbit, 122pp, £14.99) You could call it a 100-page love letter, or an extended album review. Or a poem manifesting as a novella. No, wait â itâs a surrealist sortie into a manâs love of music, French New Wave film and the city of Manchester. Essentially, though, we have here a 1980s coming of age tale/memoir framed by the canon of the authorâs favourite band, The Smiths. Bracewell describes them as ânothing less than a declaration of life as I h
Nightjar by Emily Ruskovich: Borderline psychotic in its trippy mystery (opens the original)
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The authorâs dazzling debut, Idaho, won the Dublin Literary Award in 2019, and Nightjar is another daring, immersive achievement by Emily Ruskovich. Itâs distinguished by beautifully crafted, lyrical prose with enough vibrant realism to burn character and story deep into your mind, but unhinged enough to disquiet and invite reflection. In Victorâs Room, the first of five long stories, Rebecca falls for a man who grooms her, not for sexual conquest, but for an entire, meticulously fabricate
On Witness and Respair by Jesmyn Ward: Creative non-fiction blends dreamscapes and family lore (opens the original)
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âI found myself commanded to amplify the voices of the dead that sing to me, from their boat to my boat, on the sea of time.â This is how Jesmyn Ward describes her creative non-fiction in this book of collected essays. A consummate essayist who refuses to embrace the âbloodless precisionâ of academic style, she writes a kind of personal and political reportage blended with dreamscapes and family lore. She recounts her experience of growing up black and poor in rural Mississippi in Reagan
Country People: Small-town caper with larks aplenty (opens the original)
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What to say about a book whose acknowledgments name nine animals, the season of spring, snow and the hospitable attributes of a mountain range? That itâs not a typical read might be evident, which readers already acquainted with Daniel Mason wonât be surprised to hear. If youâre not acquainted, now is your chance. The novelâs hero is a failed academic struggling to complete a PhD thesis. Country People charts a year when his more successful wife accepts a visiting professorship in rural
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