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Reading April 2022 Reading Roundup This month's reading featured Caribbean literary fiction, politics, economics, and the moving tales of a Berlin chiropodist.
Reading Race & Class in Jamaican Fiction: Dog-Heart by Diana McCaulay Dog-Heart tells the story of two Jamaicans from very different worlds. Sahara is a light-skinned “uptown” woman who runs a successful Kingston…
Reading Borges Marathon, Part 7: Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv One of the fun parts of working my way through the Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges is trying to understand where the…
Reading The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa How can human relationships be formed without shared memories? Can mathematical order overcome the chaos of a life without memory? Yoko Ogawa's…
Reading Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde Vagabonds! is a startlingly original Nigerian debut novel that introduces us to a compelling cast of marginalised characters struggling to survive and thrive on…
Reading February 2022 Reading Roundup Last month I read some excellent books, including Japanese literary fiction and some more Caribbean literature from local bookshops.
Reading Lote by Shola van Reinhold #ReadIndies Lote, a debut novel by Shola van Reinhold, is an intelligent, beautifully written piece of literary fiction that explores issues of art,…
Travel Ukraine on My Mind As Russia begins its invasion of Ukraine, here are some memories of my time there and a simple plea for peace and…