Enrique Vila-Matas: París no se acaba nunca (Never Any End to Paris)
The latest addition to my website is Enrique Vila-Matas' París no se acaba nunca (Never Any End to Paris). This is a fun post-modern novel, nominally about the two years…
Nuruddin Farah: Knots
The latest addition to my website is Nuruddin Farah's Knots, the second in a trilogy of novels about expatriate Somalis visiting Somalia during the early part of this century, when…
Junot Díaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The latest addition to my website is Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. As this was voted best novel of the century (so far), I really had…
Nuruddin Farah: Links
The latest addition to my website is Nuruddin Farah's Links, the first book in a trilogy about the disastrous situation in Somalia, at the beginning of the 21st century. The…
George Packer: The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline
The latest addition to my website is George Packer's The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline. Though not a novel Die Zeit described it as the first Great American novel…
New Zealand
I have just returned from four weeks in New Zealand. There were two reasons for going. The first, of course, was to escape the English January weather, though this plan…