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Miriam Balanescu

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Books, film + general culture writer @BBC_Culture @Guardian @SightSoundMag @AnOtherMagazine @i_D @prospect_uk miriambalanescu(at)outlook(dot)com

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Articles

  • Last Swim

    2 weeks ago | empireonline.com | Miriam Balanescu

    On exam-results day, schoolkid Ziba (Deba Hekmat) plans the perfect 24 hours with her friends as a final send-off into adulthood – but her secret illness taints the celebrations. That time when teens are on the cusp of adulthood has long proved fertile ground for filmmakers: Dazed And Confused, Superbad and Booksmart a case in point.

  • Elegy, Southwest — a road trip though America’s apocalyptic landscapes

    3 weeks ago | ft.com | Miriam Balanescu

    The second novel by the Australian writer Madeleine Watts, Elegy, Southwest, is astonishingly and chillingly prescient.

  • It's another age-gap romance

    3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Miriam Balanescu

    The latest addition to fiction's "age-gap romance" trend takes an unconventional approach. Like Sally Rooney's Intermezzo, Kingfisher, by the young Yorkshire-based writer Rozie Kelly, parses grief with love. But, unlike Rooney's novel, there's no preamble about the protagonist's underlying trauma.

  • On the Clock by Claire Baglin review – a fast food novel for a refined palette

    1 month ago | msn.com | Miriam Balanescu

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  • On the Clock by Claire Baglin review - a fast food novel for a refined palette

    1 month ago | theguardian.com | Miriam Balanescu

    In recent novels set in restaurants, the breakneck speed of the action hides darker elements at work. Stéphane Larue’s The Dishwasher follows a restaurant worker whose life threatens to unravel amid his gambling addiction; in Merritt Tierce’s Love Me Back, the world of waitressing is a front for Texas’s grimy underbelly.

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Miriam Balanescu
Miriam Balanescu @BalanescuMiriam
9 Apr 25

RT @jeremycorbyn: The public deserves to know the full scale of our government's complicity in crimes against humanity.

Miriam Balanescu
Miriam Balanescu @BalanescuMiriam
5 Apr 25

Cambridge folks, I’m excited to be hosting the Arts Picturehouse Q&A for The Stimming Pool with co-director Georgia Bradburn tomorrow. Promises to be the perfect Sunday activity - pls do come along! https://t.co/Vc4BWqwmuM

Miriam Balanescu
Miriam Balanescu @BalanescuMiriam
5 Apr 25

RT @BalanescuMiriam: Last Swim is out today! I reviewed it for Empire Mag https://t.co/UPjsTTZ93z