The Ritual first published by Sight & Sound, November 2017 Review: Regardless of where it ends, the starting point of David Bruckner’s The Ritual is a tangled forest of grief, loss and guilt from which its characters will struggle to emerge. As five one-time English university friends, now approaching middle age, discuss where they will spend…
Remainder first published by VODzilla.co Tom McCarthy’s 2005 novel Remainder concerns an unnamed man who has been left hospitalised and comatose after a freak head injury from “something falling from the sky”, and who, once he has awoken, must undergo the slow, repetitive business of physical rehabilitation, mental recuperation, and the gradual recovery of his fragmented,…