Mark Danielewski: The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May
The latest addition to my website is Mark Danielewski's The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May. This is apparently the first of a twenty-seven volume series, with the…
The latest addition to my website is Mark Danielewski's The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May. This is apparently the first of a twenty-seven volume series, with the…
The latest addition to my website is Nuruddin Farah's Close Sesame. While we are again dealing with opposition to the Somalia dictatorship, this one is slightly different from many of…
The latest addition to my website is Bogdan Suceavă's Miruna, o poveste (Miruna, A Tale). Suceavă spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in the remote Romanian countryside and…
The latest addition to my website is Enrique Vila-Matas' Doctor Pasavento. This is typical Vila-Matas, a wonderfully inventive story, full of digressions literary learning, speculations, complications and stories. It is…
The latest addition to my website is Alisa Ganieva's Праздничная гора (The Mountain and the Wall), a novel from Dagestan. Dagestan is a republic which is still part of Russia…
The latest addition to my website is Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz's La Grande Peur dans la montagne (Terror on the Mountain). This is a first-class 1920s Swiss novel, which has been translated…
The latest addition to my website is Herta Müller's Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt (The Passport). This short novel tells the story of a small German…
The latest addition to my website is Herta Müller's Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet (The Appointment). This is a grim tale of life in Communist Romania. The narrator…
The latest addition to my website is Gerald Murnane's A Lifetime on Clouds. This book, Murnane's second novel, is, quite simply, about the masturbatory fantasies of an Australian teenager living…
Kamila Shamsie has written what she calls a provocative article, about gender bias in publishing. I have dealt with this issue before - here, here and here. It has also,…