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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”
Review: Bird of Smithfield, London

Review: Bird of Smithfield, London

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word, a-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word" Or is it? Neil Stewart isn't so sure
Review: Brompton Asian Brasserie by Novikov, London

Review: Brompton Asian Brasserie by Novikov, London

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Arkady Novikov's new restaurant in Knightsbridge is a more casual relation to his Mayfair mothership, serving sushi, dim sum and some not quite Asian burgers, chips and Veuve Clicquot. "It's a West London thing"
Review: <em>Asunder</em> by Chloe Aridjis

Review: Asunder by Chloe Aridjis

by Neil D.A. Stewart

The characters in Chloe Aridjis's second novel Asunder may be stuck – but Neil Stewart finds their story strangely moving
The Phantom and The French

The Phantom and The French

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Simon Rogan's new restaurant in Manchester is where Mr Rolls first met Mr Royce
Review: <em>First Novel</em> by Nicholas Royle

Review: First Novel by Nicholas Royle

by Neil D.A. Stewart

Neil Stewart finds Nicholas Royle's First Novel funny and skewering, and recognises himself in the lead character's obsessive arrangement of books on a shelf by spine colour and design
Review: <em>On Writing</em> by A.L. Kennedy

Review: On Writing by A.L. Kennedy

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"She has a terrific answer to the vapid rhetoric of 'In a time where money is short, do you think that money should be spent on a baby’s incubator, or on supporting poetry?'"
Where are the missing* <em>Doctor Who</em> episodes?

Where are the missing* Doctor Who episodes?

by Neil D.A. Stewart

50 years on: the global hunt for the missing Doctor Who episodes