20booksofsummer22 – Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More

Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More

There's a whole world out there! I'm an experienced, UK-based editor and a bit of an aesthetic dilettante. I'm making it my off-duty duty to bring to your attention books, films, artists, music and TV from all over the world. Reviews are SPOILER FREE. New posts every week. See Reviews by country for my reviews from each nation.

We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets (Netherlands)

A dystopian Dutch romance set in the world of content moderation

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (Lebanon)

A introspective novel about a woman cloistered in her apartment in Lebanon for 50 years, accompanied only by great works of literature.

Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood and three other mini book reviews

Three mini reviews of the latest in my 20 books of summer

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)

Love, trauma and memory in Sierra Leone

They by Kay Dick (UK)

Long out of print, rediscovered dystopian fiction

Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine)

Contemporary short stories from Ukraine

In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (Russia)

Genre-defying exploration of a Jewish family in Soviet Russia

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (USA)

Women’s Prize shortlister set in and around a haunted bookshop

Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (Cameroon)

Page-turning novel about the often false promises of the American Dream for an immigrant family from Cameroon and a US family with a senior Lehman Bros executive as breadwinner.