Delphi

Bat for Lashes, a.k.a. Natasha Khan, will release her sixth album, The Dream Of Delphi, on May 31 via Mercury KX. She teased the LP with the evocative and personal title track, named after her daughter Delphi, who was born in California during lockdown in 2020. “This is the manifesto of the album,” Khan explained of the album in a statement. “It’s like a spell being cast. It’s the conjuring, the manifestation, the drawing-down of Delphi from the ether. This is me calling on her soul. It’s about going up into the…

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When you think of a television show that’s emblematic of the ‘90s, none are more quintessential than Beverly Hills, 90210. From the cheesy, guitar-heavyintro music to the too-high-to-heaven hairstyles, the show became an international hit by depicting a group of attractive teens growing up privileged in Southern California. From 1990 to 2000, it served as a forever time capsule of the decade that made consumer technology a staple in everyday life.Balancing Fan Expectations in The MandalorianAnyone who knows me,…

Just when you thought the wave of Covid novels had passed, along comes a new variant. Examples so far have ranged from Sarah Hall’s Burntcoat, which succeeded because it looked sideways at the pandemic and created something rich and strange from it, to Sarah Moss’s The Fell, which didn’t because it was too faithful a rendition of an immediate past we all wanted to forget.But it’s the immediate past that colours our expectations of the future, and in Clare Pollard’s funny and sharp debut novel, Delphi, the unnamed narrator…

Delphi is, as you might expect from the title, a novel about the future, but also about the very recent and the very distant past. The narrator is a translator of German fiction and part-time classics lecturer at a London university, living in lockdown with her increasingly distressed 10-year-old son and her increasingly withdrawn partner Jason, who is drinking increasing quantities of alcohol. Her time is divided between trying to care for and home-school her son, trying to do her work and trying not to spend too much…