It was a pleasure to cover Jacques Sternberg’s The Employee (@wakefieldpress.bsky.social) for @thetls.bsky.social. Matt Seidel's translation (The Employee’s first into English) is excellent. www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Colm McKenna on letters from the orchestra minions

Had the pleasure of covering Hermann Burger's Diabelli (translated by @anathanwest.bsky.social and published by @wakefieldpress.bsky.social) for this week's @thetls.bsky.social. Diabelli by Hermann Burger | Book review | The TLS www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

Gisèle Pelicot’s dignity; how Agnès Varda revolutionized cinema; Hamlet, via Grand Theft Auto; Djuna Barnes’s moral satires; expeditions to the North Pole – and much more. This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...

Wrote about Sister on the Road/Boxcar Bertha (@akpress.org) for ExPat Press. A lovely "autobiography" and a sweeping portrait of the Depression Era. expatpress.com/home-is-surr...

“Like the reader, he has read through a book that purportedly celebrates a great man, while achieving the total opposite.” Endless Leisure: Colm McKenna reviews Augosto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence. Read the full review at https://buff.ly/4gvCK7k

New review out in @therumpus.net. Great book. Punchy throughout, it's out to expose literary pretensions for what they are - boring obsessions that render meaningful conversations about books impossible. therumpus.net/2025/02/10/t...

A new title from @bhousepress.bsky.social comes to mind.

Wrote about a collection of Mario Levrero’s short stories for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social. I cannot recommend his work (in English translation from @andotherstories.bsky.social) highly enough. It makes the days stop repeating. www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/mari...

🎉BOILER HOUSE PRESS IN THE TLS!!🎉 We’re delighted to share @colmmckenna.bsky.social review of Red House Alley (by Else Jerusalem), in the latest issue of the @thetls.bsky.social! 🔗Read the review here: www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat... 🔗Get the book here: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...

Need new shoes, suddenly.

Wrote about the first full English translation of Red House Alley for @thetls.bsky.social. Cheers to @neglectedbooks.com and @bhousepress.bsky.social for snatching this from the jaws of obscurity! Always nice to see unfairly forgotten titles get another go around. www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...