Home is on my Mind… by Sheena Rose
Review of a lo-fi art book and footnotes about depression
Category: Book Review
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
Cubby’s Adventures in Petlandia by Steve Cleverley & Katja Hammond
Read about my problematic relationship… with my dog.
In the Company of Ghosts: The Poetics of the Motorway edited by Alan Corkish
driving myself crazy / reading books about the motorway
Closely Observed Trains by Bohumil Hrabel
Good Czech book, but do I need to try harder to czech my privilege?
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
[insert Nabokov/nobokov joke or something?]
All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
A good novel about regret and running away
Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams
drowning in sobriety like I used to drown in booze; even sublime prose can’t hoist me happy
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett
Pond is great, but like My Chemical Romance, I’m Not OK.
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
We need to talk about how you wouldn’t get a literary novelist called Kevin in England
The Faithful Couple by A.D. Miller
A rare book on male friendship, but do we need more books starring rich hetero white men?
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
books on race loved by the privileged make me nervous
Dysfunctional Males by Fernando Sdrigotti
Men are disgusting.
Nicotine by Gregor Hens
If Gregor Hens can give up smoking, I can give up booze.
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
some contemporary literary fiction about scotland
Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
What’s the difference between comics and cartoons?
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
this is not a test, it’s a memoir
Angel Catbird by Margaret Atwood & Johnnie Christmas
Atwood made a comic book, it’s fun but that’s about it
The House of the Dead by Daniel Beer
a non-fiction book that suffers from russian round
Open City by Teju Cole
transcript of a presentation from happier days
The Road To Tahrir Square by Lloyd C. Gardner
US so vain, I bet you think Arab Spring is about you
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
If Greer – who doesn’t believe in non-binary genders – is correct, then I am a woman.
“Herod’s Filthy Bathtime” from The Body and the Baptist
Once upon a time, I was trying to be a writer…
Blitzed by Norman Ohler
Hipster military history: if you’re not cool, this isn’t for you…
Triumph Of The Now 