{"id":295161,"date":"2026-02-17T05:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295161\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:16:09","slug":"discipline-by-larissa-pham-review-the-past-sure-is-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/295161\/","title":{"rendered":"Discipline by Larissa Pham review: the past sure is tense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He invites her to visit him on a secluded island in Maine. Christine leaves her tour to confront this suddenly elderly man daubing his last masterworks by the ocean. Though quietly seething until its end, Pham\u2019s second act is less taut than the first. <\/p>\n<p>Still, Discipline is an impressively disturbing story, unpacking self-abnegation, dread, ambition and longing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/9500\/9781805226703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"932\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1705-Books_Review_Drop_in_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-287541\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6213372072423201;width:143px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/a\/9500\/9781805226703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Discipline<\/a> by Larissa Pham is out now (Profile Books, \u00a316.99). You can buy it from the\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/shop\/Bigissue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Big Issue shop<\/a>\u00a0on bookshop.org, which helps to support Big Issue and independent bookshops.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a story to tell or opinions to share about this?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigissue.com\/behind-the-scenes\/how-to-have-your-views-published-by-the-big-issue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get in touch and tell us more<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reader-funded since 1991 \u2013 Big Issue brings you trustworthy journalism that drives real change.<\/p>\n<p>Every day, our journalists dig deeper, speaking up for those society overlooks.<\/p>\n<p>Could you help us keep doing this vital work?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.bigissue.dsb-fly.net\/the-big-issue-contribution-SJML625?content_group=Social+Justice&amp;cta_text=Support+our+journalism+from+%C2%A35+a+month&amp;cta_type=Support+our+journalism+from+%C2%A35+a+month&amp;source_page=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bigissue.com%2Fnews%2Fsocial-justice%2Fdisability-benefits-pip-liverpool-walton-help%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support our journalism from \u00a35 a month<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He invites her to visit him on a secluded island in Maine. Christine leaves her tour to confront&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[412,146,6570,40074,85,46,1529],"class_list":["post-295161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-fiction","tag-from-the-magazine","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}