India Lewis

Art bitch, part time writer, full time loser

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★★★★★ Sublimity on a rainy evening in London: a meditative performance of ambient serenity from #LucindaChua @ICA reviewed by @IndiaLHL https://t.co/NMqyJSVIUZ

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Whatever your views on monarchy, arrest of anti-royalist campaigners for exercising right to peaceful protest is chilling. Many of us warned about exactly this when govt rushed thro the illiberal public order bill. This is not what democracy looks like https://t.co/TWndQW6Whr

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★★★★ #AnnieProulx - FEN, BOG & SWAMP - Defending the wetlands' bounty: the peatlands are under threat, but hold so much potential as a cure - review @IndiaLHL @4thEstateBooks https://t.co/R8ns1cEe6D

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#CormacMcCarthy THE PASSENGER - Abstruse, descriptive, digressive, a good but typically obscure late-career novel from an American Great, says @IndiaLHL @picadorbooks https://t.co/PuiLaL0Gm8

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Mariana Enriquez - OUR SHARE OF NIGHT - Delving into a violent, erotic world: feeding the darkness in fiction that examines #Argentina’s dictatorship - review @IndiaLHL @GrantaBooks https://t.co/HsYk8myhuN

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★★★★ Inside the mind of the Nazi who was never found: fiction and fact mingle in Olivier Guez's The Disappearance of Josef Mengele @VersoBooks reviewed by @IndiaLHL https://t.co/sWtS9cgktK

[Frank O'Hara bot @oharapoems]

I wouldn't want to be faster
or greener than now if you were with me O you
were the best of all my days

[theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk]

★★★★ '#TheHouseofFortune is a muted sequel, but this seems fitting given the novel and the characters that it follows' - @IndiaLHL reviews #JessieBurton's follow-up to bestseller #TheMiniaturist https://t.co/75HAlJrLeF @picadorbooks

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Here Be Icebergs, by @kadaui, tr. by @Rosenkrantz.

The mysteries of kinship (families born into & families made) take disconcerting & familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories.

#PeruvianLit #ShortStories #WIT
#FamilyLife #Families

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

@jimmycarr Learn about fate of some 23 thousand Roma & Sinti deported to Auschwitz.
Our online lesson: https://t.co/4oNbsPuWdU
&
podcast about their story: https://t.co/uURtCUYjt7
It's sad to hear words that can fuel prejudice, hurt people & defile memory of their tragedy.

[theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk]

‘These songs are never meant to replace the original; they’re meant to be a tribute’ #10Questions for musician and #DJ @PeteTong, who talks about his latest EP @IbizaClassics_ and musical life thus far with @IndiaLHL https://t.co/iQzc3gMoAV

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★★★★ A beautiful performance, despite a low stage and a chatty audience. @IndiaLHL enjoys a trance-like evening with @porticoquartet St John at Hackney https://t.co/g8CFdEj8xs @Stjohngigs

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★★★★ 'Sarah Moss takes one moment, one instance of worry, and makes it stand for a year of pain and suffering'. @IndiaLHL reviews Moss's new novel #TheFell https://t.co/X9R6O8wmBe @panmacmillan

[India Lewis @IndiaLHL]

Obsessed

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‘Love after the end of the world’ ★★★★★ Immensely readable and beautifully told, #SarahHall’s #BURNTCOAT is a novel of beautiful lives of loss, set in a pandemic close to our own - @IndiaLHL is transfixed @FaberBooks https://t.co/WftTQqu5KU

[India Lewis @IndiaLHL]

@bridiemcpherson @Team_English1 Ha yes! I always forget the year group ages….

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‘Unsettling, unremitting and psychologically stark’ ★★★★ #KazuoIshiguro KLARA AND THE SUN What makes us human? A gentle tale of 'Artificial Friends', a robot's love and the human heart - @IndiaLHL review @FaberBooks https://t.co/OT4cFM0HAB

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‘Barton revels in language, what it can reveal and what it can hide, in opaque and oblique meaning' ★★★★ #PollyBarton FIFTY SOUNDS - Lost in translation: how to understand a language if you don't understand yourself - @IndiaLHL review @FitzcarraldoEds https://t.co/kfCTx8WLSQ

[India Lewis @IndiaLHL]

@MarianneLevy They can be seen on Hambledon Hill in Dorset in the summer - I think around July/august (can never remember)

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★★★★ 'This is not the sort of book that offers a neat, cosy, happy ending': #AsylumRoad by #OliviaSudjic @BloomsburyBooks is a timely and absorbing reminder of the proximity of violence says @IndiaLHL https://t.co/w5ii5DICD2