Shalom Auslander: Hope: A Tragedy
The latest addition to my website is Shalom Auslander's Hope: A Tragedy, one of the funniest books I have read in a long while. It is very politically incorrect, featuring…
Burma
I have just returned from two weeks in Burma, where I saw the biggest book in the world (see photo at left). Other sites of literary interest included the Nationa…
Sergio de la Pava: A Naked Singularity
The latest addition to my website is Sergio de la Pava's A Naked Singularity. This made some best-off lists for the end of last year but not enough. The fact…
Liam O’Flaherty: Land
The latest addition to my website is Liam O'Flaherty's Land. It is another novel set against the background of Irish history, in this case the disputes between landlords and tenants…
Rodney Graham’s The System of Landor’s Cottage
The latest addition to my website is Rodney Graham's The System of Landor's Cottage. Rodney Graham is a Canadian artist who has experimented with manipulating found texts. He has taken…
A Cypriot novel
Loukis Akritas's Νέος με καλάς συστάσεις (Young Man Seeks Position: Good References) is the latest addition to my website and the second Cypriot novel. Both of the Cypriot novels are…
Granta’s best young novelists
Philip Hensher writes in the Independent of Granta's list of best young novelists . I was aware of this forthcoming list - Granta had already flagged it - but this…
Moldova and UAE
The latest additions to my website are a novel from Moldova, a first on my site, and a novel from the United Arab Emirates, the second on my site from…
César Aira
The most recent additions to my website are two César Aira novels. I continue to be amazed by everything I read of his. Varamo (Varamo), which has been translated into…
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