Buzz Magazine
What's On in Wales - Your Ultimate Guide
In between titles offering broadsides against, respectively, bad food on trains and Welsh neoliberalism, we find novels about Turkish gangsters in London, a world without working electricity and a man who get uploaded into his group chat...
A photographic diary of COVID in Welsh hospitals, a personal account of a more mysterious ailment, an Aussie rocker's attachment to a piece of chewing gum and two novels set in a Johannesburg suburb and on a Greek island.
Relationship drama, an experimental Welsh novel, Greek mythology updated for the celeb era, the cultural implications of Chinese ear-cleaning and an illicit tryst in a summer house...
This week’s five items includes a (sometime) Buzz writer! Big shout out to Emily Garside for that. Plus wildlife illustrator Matt Sewell, August Corteau’s (translated) Greek novel and books by Nancy Tucker and Adam Mars-Jones.
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE EASY MEAT Rachel Trezise (Parthian) I admit to being a fan of Rachel Trezise’s writing. Here, she does what she does best: …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE CAN THE MONSTER SPEAK? Paul B. Preciado [trans. Frank Wynne] (Fitzcarraldo Editions) In 2019, Paul B. Preciado [pictured, top – credit Marie …
BUZZ CULTURE: RACHEL TREZISE | INTERVIEW FEATURE Easy Meat, the new work by much-admired novelist Rachel Trezise, is another slice of Valleys life, set in the Brexit crunch time …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE THE FORTUNE MEN Nadifa Mohamed (Viking) A heartbreaking fictional account of a true miscarriage of justice, and the severe consequences in Cardiff’s …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE DEATH DRIVES AN AUDI Kristian Bang Foss (Parthian) The title’s metaphor makes sense as the plot unfolds. In a bleak world where …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE BLACKFACE Ayanna Thompson (Bloomsbury) The bluntness of this book’s title is not the author’s choice, as such: Blackface is part of Bloomsbury’s …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE BEAR Marian Engel (Daunt) The late Marian Engel’s novel, initially released in Canada in 1976, is classed simultaneously as one of Canadian …
THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE BROTHERHOOD Mohamed Mbougar Sarr [trans. Alexia Trigo] (Europa Editions) Brotherhood is an award-winning blurring of the lines between fact and fiction, written …
