This week’s review: Daniel Kehlmann’s International @thebookerprizes.com shortlisted novel about GW Pabst and the morality of art observer.co.uk/culture/book...

I wrote about one of the great books observer.co.uk/culture/book...

I wrote about one of the great books observer.co.uk/culture/book...

NEW CUSK

NEW CUSK

Fieldwork in Indonesia! (Singh) Acid in Hampshire! (Me) observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Denis Johnson 4eva

Denis Johnson 4eva

Wrote about some proper bastards in @theobserveruk.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

giving some attention to my other child, hayek's bastards is out in paperback in UK and got a nice write-up in @theobserveruk.bsky.social from @chrispower.bsky.social observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Grateful to @chrispower.bsky.social for reviewing Richard Siken's extraordinary book of post-stroke prose poems, I Do Know Some Things, which prompted me to buy it.

This week’s review, in which John Cornwell tells Ted Hughes to “please fuck off” observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Constance Debré takes the focus off herself, with interestingly mixed results observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Constance Debré takes the focus off herself, with interestingly mixed results observer.co.uk/culture/book...

I wrote about Ben Lerner’s simultaneously dense and nimble new book for the @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/db58...

I wrote about Ben Lerner’s simultaneously dense and nimble new book for the @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/db58...

Richard Siken’s new collection - written in recovery from and response to a stroke - is extraordinary observer.co.uk/culture/book...

I wrote about Albert Speer & Gitta Sereny via Jean-Noël Orengo’s You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love observer.co.uk/culture/book...

I wrote about Albert Speer & Gitta Sereny via Jean-Noël Orengo’s You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love observer.co.uk/culture/book...

This week’s paperback review observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Fantastic piece

31 years before Thomas Mann began The Magic Mountain in Davos, Robert Louis Stevenson finished Treasure Island there.

‘The women in this novel are without men because they have outlived them, or been spurned by them, pushed them down the stairs, or, in the case of a sex worker, simply quit her job.’ observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Such a great biography. Why can’t they all be this good? observer.co.uk/culture/book...

“What a coarse, immoral, mean and senseless work Hamlet is.” - Tolstoy

Do London people know about this on Thursday? Sounds amazing @chrispower.bsky.social www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Feel free to review me reviewing Emin/Sirāt/Bird Grove www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A couple of extracts from my @theobserveruk.bsky.social review of Eduardo Halfon’s excellent novel Tarantula. Modiano-heads take note. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

A couple of extracts from my @theobserveruk.bsky.social review of Eduardo Halfon’s excellent novel Tarantula. Modiano-heads take note. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

‘The novel denies us solution, catharsis and, for much of its length, comprehension. Yet this is what it must be like for Cristina Rivera Garza, to whom, I suspect, all crime novels are unjustifiably cosy.’ @chrispower.bsky.social reads ‘Death Takes Me’. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Despite the conventional set-up, Cristina Rivera Garza isn’t interested in fulfilling the murder mystery contract. Satisfaction is antithetical to her aims. 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘔𝘦 is a book designed to withhold the pleasures of the genre.’ @chrispower.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘He stirred himself to go later in August, but the painting sessions were held up initially by rain, then by a minor accident when Monet injured his leg protecting some children in the forest from a discus thrown by English tourists.’ I could do with a little more detail here.

‘The novel denies us solution, catharsis and, for much of its length, comprehension. Yet this is what it must be like for Cristina Rivera Garza, to whom, I suspect, all crime novels are unjustifiably cosy.’ @chrispower.bsky.social reads ‘Death Takes Me’. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I’m in this week’s @lrb.co.uk writing about a novel I struggled through twice and am still in large part baffled by www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Manchette wastes none of his readers’ time, one short chapter after another driving the book relentlessly to its end." @chrispower.bsky.social on Jean-Patrick Machette's Nada. If you like Manchette we recommend you check out Jean Echenoz.

Not a million miles off, Mr Dickens.

All anarcho-Marxist killer, no filler. A fantastic novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

I spent a couple of hours walking around the Prado with Mathias Énard observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Rosenberg, the son of Holocaust survivors, believed in the Zionist project until a visit to Israel in the late 1960s revealed “a land filled with violence, injustice, and hatred”. His book, & its account of how Israel’s apartheid system operates, is essential reading. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Fonts in conversation. A new series (probably 1 of 1).

Brilliant work @ianleslie.bsky.social

Maybe the greatest ever example of nominative determinism

From the Sunday Times, Nov 8th 1987. What became of Motion’s ten-novel sequence?

Kenneth Roth looks back at 30 years of genocide, repression and state-sponsored terror. And you know what? It almost looks like a golden age compared with today. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov: another lost classic plucked from oblivion’s clutches you’re welcome observer.co.uk/culture/book...

November again already?