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Live review: Kate Bush at London’s Hammersmith Apollo
Kate Bush’s live show is an arresting act of theatrical imagination and nerve – well, what else did you expect, asks Sinéad Gleeson? Kate Bush Hammersmith Apollo, London, August 27th, 2014 ***** You...
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Theatre Review: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
For anyone who’s read Eimear McBride’s uncompromising and brilliant debut novel A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing – where language is ne plus ultra – a stage adaptation seems like an obvious reimagining....
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Review: Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys by Viv...
This is not just a punk journal: it’s a story of femaleness, of feminism and of a fascinating life, which shows Albertine to be a memoirist of great skill and wit, says Sinéad Gleeson In the mid...
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Review: Academy Street by Mary Costello
Academy Street by Mary Costello (Canongate) When Mary Costello’s collection The China Factory was published in 2012 by The Stinging Fly, it was clear that here was a writer of huge ability. Nominated...
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Review: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit (Granta) In 2008, Rebecca Solnit wrote about an incident that took place during a skiing weekend in Aspen. In the essay, the writer recounts a conversation...
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Review: The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave
The Sick Bag Song by Nick Cave (Canongate) 25 years ago, German filmmaker Uli M. Schüppel made The Road to God Knows Where, a documentary that followed Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on a US tour. Shot...
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Review: The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (Melville House / Graywolf Press) In the same week I reread Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, I downloaded a Granta podcast with American writer and activist Rebecca...
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Review: The White Book by Han Kang
“Now I will give you white things, What is white, though may yet be sullied; Only white things will I give.” These lines, one of the rare eruptions of poetry in Han Kang’s studied and astonishing...
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Review: Dept of Speculation by Jenny Offill
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill (Granta) There is a scene in Jenny Offill’s Dept. of Speculation where the writer protagonist bumps into a man she used to know. “I think I must have missed your...
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