Gareth Hinds

Paul Griffiths : The Tilted Cup : Noh Stories

Sometimes one can be in the mood for a slender beautiful book, with short poetic stories and evocative illustrations. The adult version of a fairy tale really. And where better to find this than in the Cahiers Series published in Sylph Editions by the American University in Paris. The twenty-three volumes in this series have authors ranging from Muriel Spark to Anne Carson, from Lydia Davis to Simon Leys, with titles like Notes from the Hall of Uselessness to Nay Rather. For my first choice in this series, I chose volume twenty-two, The Tilted Cup by Paul Griffiths