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• My Mother’s Much Prettier Than I Am, but I Don’t Cry So Much.

  

  May roundup I’ve quite enjoyed doing the roundup posts so I decided to do another. Several of these books I also hope to give a proper write-up to later this... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Hill House is Vile, It is Diseased; Get Away from Here at Once.

  

  The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson I already briefly wrote about The Haunting of Hill House in my recent March roundup, here. Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Certainty Backslides into Probability. Information Transmission, It Emerges, is...

  

  Transmission, by Hari Kunzru I wrote a little about Kunzru’s second novel Transmission here as part of my March roundup, but being something of a Kunzru fan I... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Name is Frances Hinton and I Do Not Like to Be Called Fanny.

  

  April roundup This is hopefully the last of my roundup posts for a  while – after this I hope to go back to the more usual single-book posts. Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• “Forget All Your Fears Now. Have a Fling This Night”

  

  March roundup This is my March roundup. Again, a pretty solid reading month. I may do a similar post for April and then try to start doing individual posts agai... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• He Looks Down at the Dry Earth and He Knows That It’s Been Too Dry for Marks...

  

  February roundup I read fewer books in February than January, but better books. Here they are. The Crew, by Joseph Kessel This is a Pushkin Press release writte... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Six Bullets and a Gun to Take Me to Mexico. That’s All I’ve Got Now. And It’s a...

  

  January roundup It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to post much – I’ve been busy at work and then looking to move jobs (which I’ll be doing in July).... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• One Cannot Think with a Ten-year-old Kiowa-German Captive Throwing Soap and...

  

  News of the World, by Paulette Jiles This is a slightly unusual one for me which I only read to be honest because it was on an end of year list that I can’t... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Brilliant Blue of the Morning Sea, of the Cloudless Sky,

  

  Collected Poems, C.P. Cavafy, translated by Edmund Keeley and Phillip Sherrard Back in 2015 I reviewed the Penguin Classics little black book edition of Avi... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Post Christmas Round-up

  

  I read a few books over Christmas and in the run-up to New Year that I didn’t get a chance to write a post about. Going into 2018 that gives me a backlog of... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Best Books Read in 2017

  

  I read War and Peace! It just seems worth shouting about. It did take almost two months. Anyway, with that notice out of the way here’s my end of year... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Then You Won’t Absolve Me?

  

  Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo and translated by Margaret Sayers Peden (first published 1955) Pedro Páramo comes in at around 140 or 150 pages, depending on the... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• “These People Suffer from Psychosis of the Past,” Thought Blasi, “you Can Smell...

  

  Death Going Down, by María Angélica Bosco and translated by Lucy Greaves I’m not generally a huge fan of classic crime as a genre. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• We Didn’t Know Sadness Until We Had a Point of Comparison.

  

  Such Small Hands, by Andrés Barba and translated by Lisa Dillman It’s hard to talk about Such Small Hands without using words like dark, sinister, troubling. Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• A Wonderful Audacity Shown to the Whole World!

  

  1917, Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution, various translators The Russian Revolution was a bloody and extraordinary period. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• … Neither Miracles nor Miracle-workers Can Help Us …

  

  The Miracle-Worker, by Carmen Boullosa and translated by Amanda Hopkinson Every now and then I read something new. Not new in the sense that I haven’t read it... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mr Tiller and I Will Marry, and I Will Become a Schoolmistress to Raise the...

  

  The Arrival of Missives, by Aliya Whiteley I cannot sleep. Today I overheard Mrs Barbery in the street gossiping with the other mothers. She said, ‘He isn’t a... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The House of Paper by Carlos Maria Dominguez

  

  The House of Paper, by Carlos Maria Dominguez and translated by Peter Sis There are some terms I never use to describe books. Important for example. Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Money Has No Nationality, No Allegiance. … It’s the Most Powerful Polity of All.

  

  Europe in Winter by Dave Hutchinson It’s a tricky thing reviewing the third of a trilogy. However good it is it’s generally not a standalone work and the risk o... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• the One Who Wears the Crown is the One Who’s Made the Most Corpses

  

  Down the Rabbit Hole, by Juan Pablo Villalobos and translated by Rosalind Harvey I tend to be a bit nervous of child narrators, mostly as I think they’re... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE