Mireille Juchau

Black American scholar Christina Sharpe interrogates the different demands made by guilt and grief when addressing a violent national history

A coiled hose, a howling dog, terebinth trees, soap suds, the smell of petrol on human skin. These details are so subtly embedded in part one of Minor Detail (Text) that when they recur in part two they gain a holographic glow. Palestinian Adania Shibli’s cinematic novel stages a return of the repressed on a national scale by reprising an atrocity committed by Israeli soldiers in the Negev region in 1949.

Twilight knowing: Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’

The Mexican ‘documentary fiction’ writer delivers a polyphonic road trip

The French artist in Sydney