Books I read and loved in 2024: Kōbō Abe, The Ruined Map (Penguin) trans, E. Dale Saunders Marguerite Duras, The Lover (Flamingo) trans, Barbara Bray Victor Jestin, Heatwave (Simon & Schuster) trans, Sam Taylor Violette Leduc, Thérèse and Isabelle (Salammbo) trans, Sophie Lewis

Two blazing new poems from Amy McCauley appear in the first issue of STRINGS, a new online publication published today. stringsmag.com/strings-1-am... Features work by David Hayden, Tom Jenks and a cohort of illustrious contributors.

Books I read and loved in 2023: Chantal Akerman, My Mother Laughs (Silver Press) trans, Daniella Shrier Joe Brainard, I Remember (Granary Books) Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death (Fitzcarraldo) trans, Patrick O’Brian Amina Cain, Indelicacy (Daunt Books ...

Please go and see the Anna Mendelssohn exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery