MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
All the horrors of Iraq
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
A civilian casualty of war in Iraq lost both legs
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RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Sololand
By Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright
Comma Press £10.99
SOLOLAND by Iraqi writer Hassan Blasim is a collection of three stories focusing on Iraq’s recent violent history and its devastating consequences.
One of the most established contemporary Arabic writers being published in English, Blasim represents the starkest brutalities through satire and black humour. His long-time collaborator Jonathan Wright delivers the narratives into English idiomatic style.
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