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Neil D.A. Stewart

Review: <em>Floating City</em> by Sudhir Venkatesh

Review: Floating City by Sudhir Venkatesh

by Neil D.A. Stewart

“Wasn’t it possible that the whole vast global city was actually knit together by the invisible threads of the underground economy?”
Universal music

Universal music

by Neil D.A. Stewart

From Björk's Debut to Biophilia, a two decade Icelandic art adventure
<em>Trainspotting</em> in translation

Trainspotting in translation

by Neil D.A. Stewart

20 years on, how does Irvine Welsh's quintessentially Scottish masterpiece read… in French?
Review: <em>The Luminaries</em> by Eleanor Catton

Review: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"Creaky plotting", overlong and a "missed opportunity". Neil Stewart finds much at fault with Eleanor Catton's much hyped Man Booker-longlisted novel
The most beautiful room in Paris | Le Grand Véfour

The most beautiful room in Paris | Le Grand Véfour

by Neil D.A. Stewart

The most literary and historic restaurant in the City of Light is a sumptuous, violet-flavoured timewarp
Review: Grain Store, London

Review: Grain Store, London

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"You might, then, enjoy a cedarwood lemonade with your starter, or a martini made with mustard vodka with that pork belly tamale. (To me it sounds like a surefire way to make a questionable dish unambiguously disgusting.)"
Around Sicily, in a vintage 1960s Fiat Cinquecento

Around Sicily, in a vintage 1960s Fiat Cinquecento

by Neil D.A. Stewart

On the road, around the island, in a vintage Fiat Cinquecento
Review: <em>A Constellation of Vital Phenomena</em> by Anthony Marra

Review: A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Torture, white slavery, forced heroin addiction and genocide – unlikely sources for comedy, but Anthony Marra's story, set across two Chechen wars, manages to be as funny as it is jarring
Review: <em>All the Birds, Singing</em> by Evie Wyld

Review: All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Neil Stewart reviews Evie Wyld's new book, a dark story of abuse, abduction and monsters that slowly reveals the meaning of its title, complete with its strategic comma
Review: <em>Field Notes From a Hidden City</em> by Esther Woolfson

Review: Field Notes From a Hidden City by Esther Woolfson

by Neil D.A. Stewart

“You don’t often find socially minded, intelligent, empathetic [crows] depicted on Christmas cards”, she laments; “Only territorial, aggressive robins”