Tom Rob Smith Twenty Years Together - Tom Rob Smith A novel about a long-term gay partnership shaped by emotional safety and narrative order.
Han Kang Featured The Vegetarian - Han Kang A corrective reading of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian that rejects freedom narratives in favour of psychological collapse.
Solvej Balle On the Calculation of Volume III - Solvej Balle A review of Solvej Balle’s third volume, where isolation gives way to shared living and the loop becomes communal.
Wayne Koestenbaum Featured My Lover, the Rabbi - Wayne Koestenbaum A review of Wayne Koestenbaum’s novel tracing how erotic intensity hardens into systems of control and managed intimacy.
Monika Kim Molka - Monika Kim A review of Monika Kim’s novel about voyeurism, institutional tolerance, and ordinary cruelty.
Lucy Rose The Lamb - Lucy Rose A review of Lucy Rose’s novel centred on maternal closeness, control and a child’s unmet longing for care.
Justin Torres Blackouts - Justin Torres A review of Justin Torres’s novel about memory, erasure and the limits of preservation.
Solvej Balle On the Calculation of Volume II - Solvej Balle A review of Solvej Balle’s second volume, examining how narrative pressure intensifies as movement, control, and meaning thin rather than expand.
Josh Silver Fruit Fly - Josh Silver A review of Josh Silver’s novel examining authorship, power and the exploitation of gay life as narrative material.
Solvej Balle On the Calculation of Volume I - Solvej Balle A review of Solvej Balle’s novel about unshared time.
Ottessa Moshfegh Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh A review of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel focused on voice, self-contempt and a tightly confined interior life.
Curtis Garner Orange - Curtis Garner A review of Curtis Garner’s novel tracing first gay love and adolescence across Cornwall and London, marked by control rather than emotional pull.
Han Kang Human Acts - Han Kang A review of Han Kang’s novel about violence understood through its aftermath and lasting moral damage.
Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. Tore All to Pieces - Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. A review of Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.’s debut novel examining rural life, quiet authority and the slow formation of desire under constraint.
Kyle Farnworth Medusa: Or, Men Entombed in Winter - Kyle Farnworth A review of Kyle Farnworth’s novel examining belief, power and violence within an isolated male community.
Philippe Besson Lie With Me - Philippe Besson A review of Philippe Besson’s novel about first love shaped by class, silence and the limits of what can be named.
Jonathan Parks-Ramage Yes, Daddy - Jonathan Parks-Ramage A review of Jonathan Parks-Ramage’s novel examining abuse, power and the limits of intensity as a substitute for precision.
Han Kang Greek Lessons - Han Kang A review of Han Kang’s novel resisting narrative resolution in favour of silence, proximity and incompleteness.
Claire Keegan Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan A review of Claire Keegan’s novella about decency tested against stability and social silence.
T.T. Madden The Neon Revelation - T.T. Madden A review of T.T. Madden’s short novel about belief, power, and the pressures of closed systems.
Arundhati Roy Mother Mary Comes to Me - Arundhati Roy A review of Arundhati Roy’s memoir as a disciplined record of formation whose composure ultimately limits its emotional reach
Garth Greenwell Cleanness - Garth Greenwell A review of Garth Greenwell’s novel driven by desire, shame, and a narrator governed by appetite rather than judgement.
John Stewart Wynne Consequences of Attraction - John Stewart Wynne A review of John Stewart Wynne’s stories about desire, entitlement, and the quiet erosion of consent.
John Williams Stoner - John Williams A review of John Williams’s novel about endurance, clarity and the quiet weight of a lived life.
Ezra Palmer Catbirds - Ezra Palmer A review of Ezra Palmer’s novel about sibling loss and the limits of looking back.
