Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel
a literary memoir on translation
Category: Book Review
Settled Wanderers by Sam Berkson and Mohamed Sulaiman
a book about an unfamiliar struggle
The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard
we are all connected or are we?
The Unmapped Country: Stories & Fragments by Ann Quin
Find out what Scott Manley Hadley has been reading and doing
Birthday Literary Suicide Tour
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
Compass by Mathias Enard
A beautiful novel for an ugly world.
#TotNTV: Setting Up A Literary Magazine
Sean Preston chats Open Pen.
Paraside Lost by John Milton
Imagine if the songs in Rocky Horror were shit
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker & Julia Scheele
Keen to work out what my sexuality is but too repressed to do it using sex
#TotNTV: Translating the Balkans
Three writers and a publisher discuss work in translation
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Gorgeous, sensuous, unforgettable
Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba
Digression-free review of some new literary fiction
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Finally, a book about race that makes me angry at myself
BoJack Horseman
Scott Manley Hadley reviews TV.
Safe Mode by Sam Riviere
familiarity breeds affection
The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny
A dense, complex book about a dense, complex conflict
Hold Tight by Jeffrey Boakye
i’m looking tired but feeling great
Notes From No Man’s Land by Eula Biss
great essay collection… from america
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
I try being kind to myself. It’s alright.
50 Euro by Karina Bush
if sex sells who’s buying
The Voyage that Never Ends: Malcolm Lowry In His Own Words edited by Michael Hofmann
Is The Best of Malcolm Lowry your favourite Malcolm Lowry book?
#TotNTV: Winnie M Li & Dark Chapter
#TotNTV episode discussing a novel about sexual assault
Dreaming In Starlight by Philip Elliott
I review an eBook for another website.
Home is on my Mind… by Sheena Rose
Review of a lo-fi art book and footnotes about depression
Rebuttal from Lewis Parker
A disgruntled former reviewee comes back to work packing heat.
Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesley M. M. Blume
Can I love Hemingway’s writing but hate Hemingway?
Street Epistles by Faruk Šehić
Great poems from an EU Prize winner; the peripatetic blogger continues to splinter
Sex With Theresa May And Other Fantasies by Lewis Parker
Some utter filth, but too much aggression for my comfort
The Best of A Bad Situation by Jamie Thrasivoulou
Angry poetry from the badlands of the East Midlands.
The Africa In My House by Andrea Mbarushimana
A British woman considers the life of her Rwandan husband and his country.
Enemies of the People by Sam Jordison
Who does the bad thing?
Pissing off White Men Again
Some tweet responses from my latest HuffPost article.
The Human Condition Is A Terminal Illness by Matthew J. Hall
Poems about sad, lonely, englishmen
Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre
Some newly-translated cracking French fiction
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet (Book One) by Ta-Nehisi Coates & Brian Stelfreeze
A collection that would be exciting if there was more of it…
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson
A pointless book for pointless people.
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
An important new novel about sexual assault. Long post.
Extravagant Stranger: A Memoir by Daniel Roy Connelly
A book that describes itself as “Ian Fleming meets Rimbaud”
Gross In Feather, Loud In Voice by Judson Hamilton
Emotive, bizarre, inventive, stories.
The Night Visitors by Jenn Ashworth & Richard V. Hirst
Great book, plus lots about why I didn’t win the award I was shortlisted for.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Wonderful, massive, beautiful, biased.
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Music & Literature No. 7
I get angry and confused because I’m repressed and have elitist interests
The Son by Andrej Nikolaidis
More contemporary Balkan writings and my opinions on criminalisation of narcotics
Till Kingdom Come by Andrej Nikolaidis
Some cracking Montenegrin fiction
In Love With HS2 & Awards Excitement
new article & award attention elsewhere
The Coming by Andrej Nikolaidis
My Balkan adventure continues
Homunculus by Aleksandar Prokopiev
Contemporary fairy tales from Macedonia
Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed by Liam Hogan
My latest review over at Open Pen discusses the point of fiction…
The Ladybird Book of The Hangover by J.A. Hazeley & J.P. Morris
Humour books about the bottle don’t sit right
Triumph Of The Now 