Sophie Frazer
Sophie Frazer reviews 'The Hunter and Other Stories of Men' by David Cohen
Sophie Frazer
Thursday, 30 August 2018
In David Cohen’s collection of wry and quirky stories, he follows the lives of various men in their rituals of ordinariness – their failures, foibles, and fetishes – with a razor-like eye observing the disenchantments of modernity ...
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Published in
October 2018, no. 405
Sophie Frazer reviews 'The Art of Persuasion' by Susan Midalia
Sophie Frazer
Thursday, 23 August 2018
'Longing,’ thinks Hazel West, the twenty-five-year-old protagonist of Susan Midalia’s first novel, ‘I could begin a story with longing.’ This is a book about various kinds of longing: the desire for intimacy, for human understanding, for self-possession and self-forgetting. Most of all ...
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Published in
September 2018, no. 404