Today's letter in the Really Like This Book podcast series script catch-up is T, so it has to be Angela Thirkell. I've spent several years writing about Thirkell, so I need to remind myself that although she used to be really famous, now she is hardly known at all, unless you're in the Angela Thirkell … Continue reading The outbreak of war: Angela Thirkell’s Cheerfulness Breaks In
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Now posting on Vulpes Libris: North Korean magical realism
I've posted a review of Hwang Sok-yong's novel Princess Bari over on Vulpes Libris: magical realism, forest survival, spirit voices, starvation, reflexology, snakehead extortion, refugee survival, the long arm of the law circumvented by smiling faces and deft disappearances, the floating, shifting population of London's migrant communities and the silent snowy Chinese hillsides where Bari is taught … Continue reading Now posting on Vulpes Libris: North Korean magical realism