Reviews & features: Books, Bidisha
Profile: Sapphire - The Kid
19 Aug 2011
Author set for appearance at 2011 Edinburgh Book Festival
Sapphire is the voice of America. She doesn’t write about the glitz of Manhattan, the subtle discontents of suburbia or the gothic claustrophobia of the deep south. Her terrain is one in which the American Dream has not only failed but is a total joke…
Sharon Olds - American Literary Legend
12 Aug 2009
It’s time to assess the sins of the father – and the mother. And there’s no one better to do so than one of America’s most influential poets, Sharon Olds, as famous for her tough stylistic swagger as her unflinching mind. Olds was born in 1942 and is…
Mio Matsumoto
10 Aug 2009
Sketching a spiky ode to recovery
Never before has cancer looked so cute. But then, it’s the gift of artists to transform the brute chaos and fear of everyday life into objects of delight. This is what Japanese graphic artist Mio Matsumoto does with My Diary. On the surface it’s a…
