From Omar El Akkad to Laura Spinney: new books reviewed in short

One Day , Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is an angry, graphic, elegant, shocking howl of a book that, in the deafening silence that follows, makes you wonder: what now? Emily Hauser is interested in giving the heroines of the Iliad and Odyssey back their voices she wants to find out who they really were.

It is a sore and delicate love story, to which Hewitt shows fast commitment.

The central relationship occurs by light, sensitive touch, and reaches arresting emotional depths.

Hewitt ’s poetic facility makes easy music of his atmosphere.

He denies obvious climax; after James 's sexuality comes out at his school, for instance, he hides in the bathrooms.