A Phone of the Artist as a Young Man by Pierce Day – PART THREE OF FOUR
closer to the text, the faults fall away – a four part review continues
Tag: novel
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: Stephen D Owen, author of Iceni: The Year of Sacrifice
interview with Stephen D Owen, author of Iceni: The Year of Sacrifice
A Dream Wants Waking By Lydia Kwa
i enjoyed this chaotic novel but never worked out if it was in control or not…
TEN WORDS OR FEWER INTERVIEW: J.S. Morton, author of You’re Gone
interview with J.S. Morton, author of You’re Gone
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
some thoughts and questions raised by Wharton’s wintry non-wonderland
Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
a giant book that offers a giant good time
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
a serious novel that reminds us, again, of the cost of our silences
Sex and the Death of Chivalry by Pete Brown
someone on the internet sent me a first draft of a novel
Piranesi by Susana Clarke
strange weird wonderful yes
Call For The Dead by John Le Carré
are you a #bondboy or #smileyman?
City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
phenomenal novel from a storytelling expert – essentially flawless??? (i loved it and im so depressed i take pleasure from nothing)
Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
progressive(ish) proto-modernism from 1880s South Africa
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
read a book abour time travel while on holiday (yes, that’s an elephant)
LOTE by Shola von Reinhold
it’s not short, it’s not sexy, it’s not sad… it’s also not shit!!!
X by Davey Davis
it’s not hardcore super sex (or maybe it is?)
Black American Psycho by Ernest Baker
solid novel recommended in Only Americans Burn In Hell
One Thing by Xanthi Barker
deeply affecting, affectingly deep
Thread Ripper by Amalie Smith
a gorgeous book
The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir
some things are worth dying for – what is worth killing for?
Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
Clotel or, the President’s Daughter by William Wells Brown
excellent, significant, 19th century anti-slavery novel
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
a bleak, beautiful, japanese novel[la]
Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (PART TWO)
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
Canopus in Argos: Archives by Doris Lessing
doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
Four Short(ish) Novels from 2020
can’t stop reading / can’t start doing anything else
James Baldwin Threeway
baldwin, baldwin, baldwin
who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
truly one of the greatest recent works of fiction
Jazz by Toni Morrison
redressing a gap in my reading
Cygnet by Season Butler
a solid contemporary novel
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
a truly phenomenal novel but Scotty still depressed
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
powerful novel that should be better known
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
excellent mid-life crisis novel
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
some notes on a gorgeous novel
I Am A Truck by Michelle Winters
very very very good novella from 2016
Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
a very very very good big book on WAR
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
a solid, if unambitious, novel from a major contemporary voice
The Outlander by Gil Adamson
i’ve found my local indie press
Insane by Rainald Goetz
an intense, disconcerting, spectacular novel
Mariana by Monica Dickens
a serviceable though chaste 1940s bildungsroman
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
acclaimed canadian steampunky slavery novel
Normal People by Sally Rooney
rooney rooney
Silas Marner by George Eliot
a lovely fucking novel
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
it’s the most wonderful book of the year
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
some creepy southern Gothic…
A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
i found a book in the street
A Terrible Country by Keith Gessen
a very good contemporary novel
Maurice by E. M. Forster
a snobbish delight
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
ideologically, i’d love to tear this apart, but i cannot…
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