Category: Fiction

  • 02/01/2024
    Medical science, one trim at a time The Economist on pogonophobia and pogonophilia. Many also believed that not shaving offered…
  • 05/06/2023
    Martin Amis as the lurid chronicler of the UK The Economist These men dared to write vast superpower novels about…
  • 30/03/2023
    Feels like it The England that awaits the young Mundy is a rain-swept cemetery for the living dead powered by…
  • 14/01/2023
    Piece rate Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words (Ep. 168) | Conversations with Tyler TYLER COWEN: What’s a book…
  • 21/03/2022
    Our laws are unfortunately not widely known, they are the closely guarded secret of the small group of nobles who…
  • 18/03/2022
    Via John Naughton ”Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.” Anthony Trollope He…
  • 07/10/2020
    I read Malcolm Bradbury’s satire The History Man many decades ago and loved it as a satire on university life…
  • 28/09/2020
    “At a certain age, there is only one subject.” The fuller quote is: She [Sigrid Nunez] was already well into…
  • 20/07/2020
    John le Carré is one of my favourite authors. There is a wonderful sense of rebellion, coupled with both dismay…
  • 07/05/2020
    As a human being, and a citizen of this country, I deplore almost everything that’s going on in public life,”…