Bloodchild by Octavia E Butler
exceptionally good short story collection
Tag: essays
50 Words on Each of the Essays in Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Yes, it’s here, the new (new?) Joan Didion, so to celebrate I’m going to give a tiny tiny tiny commentContinue Reading
Some Fragments of Incomplete Lockdown Blogs
Richard Wright in Franco’s Spain and other fragments
the cléo reader: 2013-2019
commencing unemployment and panicking about expertise
Wormholes by John Fowles
a collection of essays
Joan Didion: the 1960s and 70s
didion didion didion didion didion didion didion
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
great early[ish] essays from one of america’s best
Limbo by Dan Fox
how limbo can you go?
Mixed-Race Superman by Will Harris
glorious, wonderful, contemporary non-fiction
So Far From God by Veronica Gonzalez Peña
phenomenal essay on Mexican corruption
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
Teju Cole Me By Your Name
Africa’s Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
a bit of African history and more white opinions on racism #facepalm #alwayspublish
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
In the Company of Ghosts: The Poetics of the Motorway edited by Alan Corkish
driving myself crazy / reading books about the motorway
in print alert / in paper print / paper print alert / in paper alert
read all about bs johnson – like this blog but in a book
White Girls by Hilton Als
Off the booze (again), I enjoy a book but despair of life.
Specimen Days by Walt Whitman
The life and memories of Walt Whitman, focusing on war and nature.
Useful Work v. Useless Toil by William Morris
Morris is a dream-weaving Corbynista, whose acknowledgement of a sad truth mis-sees it as a solvable problem.
Consider the Lobster And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
David bloody Foster bloody Wallace…
The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
A lot of people don’t read poetry. A lot of people who read a lot of books, don’t read poetry. AContinue Reading
Anglo-English Attitudes by Geoff Dyer
I’m writing this on my phone, stood in the queue at the Apple Store where I’ve gone to replace myContinue Reading
The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
As many of you may have noticed, after the UK recently democratically elected a right-wing government, I shaved off myContinue Reading
The thing about life is that one day you’ll be dead by David Shields
David Shields’ The thing about life is that one day you’ll be dead manages to be simultaneously heart-breakingly depressing whilstContinue Reading
Working the Room by Geoff Dyer
As often happens with essay collections (particularly ones read for the writer’s personality rather than his or her topics), WorkingContinue Reading
A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again by David Foster Wallace
As I’ve mentioned on here many, many, many, many, many times, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace* is one of theContinue Reading
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch is an acclaimed American poet. He is also an undertaker. This book is a collection of essays aboutContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 