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

Review of the Kevin Barry book ‘Night Boat to Tangier’ (Ireland)

Two bantering Irish criminals contemplate life while waiting at a Spanish ferry port

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

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937, Russia)

Speculative Russian dystopia from the 1920s

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.