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Film Review, Katanga: Dance of the Scorpions (Burkina Faso)
In late November last year I went to London’s BFI to watch a 2024 movie, Katanga: Dance of the Scorpions, shot in Burkina Faso, and directed by Dani Kouyaté. The coup-beleaguered, West African state of Burkina Faso might seems an unlikely hub for the film industry, but for many years it has hosted the Panafrican …
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Book Review: The Trial by Franz Kafka (Czech Republic)
Classic surreal tale of a clerk navigating a sinister bureaucracy
Book Review: Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga (Albania)
A Booker-nominated novel by an Albanian writer
TBR for January 2026
My TBR for January 2026
Book Review: Inside Story by Martin Amis (England)
Autobiographical novel by Martin Amis
Book Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura (USA)
Recently Booker-longlisted experimental novel of acting and identity
Book Review: Red Water by Jurica Pavicic (Croatia)
A crime thriller that also becomes a meditation on the post-communist history of Croatia
Book Review: The Possession by Annie Ernaux (France)
Unapologetic and raw short account of the fall-out from the break up of a relationship
Book Review: The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayetu Moore (Liberia)
A gripping memoir of living through the first Liberian civil conflict, and flight to the USA