A Replacement Life review – Boris Fishman tells tall tales in a fine debut

Journalism, Literary CriticismBy Charlotte9th July 2014

For The Guardian: The story of the impact of a woman’s suicide through anorexia on her brother and her father I was always going to like this novel. It is about Russia and Russian-ness and America and American-ness, about the relationship between the generations, history, atonement, fact, fiction, biography, literature and the process of writing…

Munich Airport by Greg Baxter review – good, old-fashioned existential angst

Journalism, Literary CriticismBy Charlotte9th July 2014

For The Guardian: The story of the impact of a woman’s suicide through anorexia on her brother and her father…   In his 1967 novel, Gargoyles, the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard has the following passage: “Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on … We follow the course of the life he has now so…