Have a Carrot: Picture Books
Virginia Albert, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Sometime between midni...
Books
The Big Teal, by Simon Holmes à Court
The Big Teal is a brief account of the strategy behind the rise of the indepe...
Re-Covered: She-Crab Soup by Dawn Langley Simmons
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Virginia Woolf once asked a littl...
Waiting, by Goretti Kyomuhendo (Decolonising a Blog…...
Just before Remembrance Day, 2022, I came across a review by Francis P Sempa...
I Remember All Too Well: Taylor Swift and Joe Brainard
Taylor Swift. Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC0 4.0. Last year, I began r...
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 3 — A Q&A wit...
This is the third in a series BLARB will be running of interviews with some o...
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 4: A Double Q...
This is the fourth in a series of interviews BLARB has been running to introd...
Meet the LARB China Channel Team, Part 5 — A Q&A wit...
This is the fifth in our BLARB series made up of interviews with some of the ...
Stormy Weather, by Michael Meehan
Reviews From the Archive An occasional series, retrieving unpublished reviews...
The Salt of Broken Tears, by Michael Meehan
Reviews From the Archive An occasional series, retrieving unpublished reviews...
In the beginning is the end
Meret Oppenheim, X-Ray of M.O.’s Skull (Röntgenaufnahme des Schädels M.O.), 1...
The Review’s Review: Real Housewives Edition
Season 5, episode 3 of Selling Sunset. One of my favorite lines of reality TV...
My Soul Twin, by Nino Haratischvili, translated by C...
Billed as ‘an intense story of forbidden love’ and a ‘modern day Wuthering He...
The Italian Girl, by Iris Murdoch
Almost the first thing I learned in English 101 at Melbourne University, was ...
Encounters with Ghosts
Victorian spirit photograph. Preus museum, no restrictions, via Wikimedia Com...
Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan
A year after Cathy posted her enticing review of Claire Keegan’s novella Smal...
Education
Don’t Forget to Breathe
By James Prescott-Kerr When you’re abroad and know you have limited time in ...
