Rachel Savage is a part-time law student and full-time public sector worker. In her spare time, she indulges her eclectic tastes in the visual arts, film and fiction.

Variations on an immigrant theme

The immigrant story is an established trope in American literature, but Amy Bloom does something subtly different.

Funding Yiddish theatre

As the title suggests, the film is indeed an ode to Yiddish theatre as well as a prayer for its continuance. Coming out of the film, however, is also an important arts policy question about what types of minority arts and culture should be funded by the state, and how.

What Was Lost - Booker 2007

Kate’s naïveté is conveyed by the narrative directly. Striking the balance between a faux innocence and the ‘truth’ sensed by the reader is a delicate business and one which shows O’Flynn’s writing ability to its greatest effect.