Susie Mesure

5 days ago | inews.co.uk | Susie Mesure

When Sara Baras stamped her black heels onto the stage at Sadler’s Wells for the UK premiere of her new flamenco show, Vuela, she was well beyond retirement age for any other dance discipline. But at 54, Baras is in her prime: her vibrant, swirling encore to her latest show proof that age is no impediment to her sway over her audience, and that an old art form can surprise and innovate. Flamenco is unusual in the dance world in prizing maturity over youth.

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Susie Mesure

On the Calculation of Volume: Books I and II Faber, pp.204, 12.99 I have counted the days. It is my 122nd eighteenth of November. I have come a long way from the seventeenth and I do not know whether I will ever see the nineteenth. But the eighteenth arrives again and again.

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Susie Mesure

I have counted the days. It is my 122nd eighteenth of November. I have come a long way from the seventeenth and I do not know whether I will ever see the nineteenth. But the eighteenth arrives again and again. This is life for Tara Selter, the protagonist of On the Calculation of Volume, a mesmerising projected septology by the Danish writer Solvej Balle that will make anyone who has ever longed to pause time rethink their wish list.

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Susie Mesure

Beautyland Vintage, pp.322, 9.99 ‘I am an Adina,’ the four-year-old protagonist of Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland writes to her extraterrestrial superiors on Planet Cricket Rice, which is light years away from Earth. ‘Yesterday I saw bunnies on the grass,’ she adds, using the fax machine her mother retrieved from their neighbour’s trash. ‘DESCRIBE BUNNIES,’ they respond, sparking a dialogue that continues well into her adulthood.

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Susie Mesure

‘I am an Adina,’ the four-year-old protagonist of Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland writes to her extraterrestrial superiors on Planet Cricket Rice, which is light years away from Earth. ‘Yesterday I saw bunnies on the grass,’ she adds, using the fax machine her mother retrieved from their neighbour’s trash. ‘DESCRIBE BUNNIES,’ they respond, sparking a dialogue that continues well into her adulthood.