How can a memoir convey the damage done by eating disorders, without passing it on?
Nancy Tucker’s eating disorder memoir, The Time In Between, tackles this problem head-on.
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England’s private and inaccessible countryside
Some years ago, deep in the process of writing a novel, At Hawthorn Time, I decided to walk a section…
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Drugs and misdemeanours: Will Self’s memoir Will
The metaphysics begin with the dust-jacket: a big black “Will”. Underneath, an almost invisibly white “Self”. They are divided by…
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Modernist and minimalist: on Tom McCarthy and Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant and Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island have opposite problems: one too little stretched long, the other overstuffed.
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Journey into fear: Denis Johnson’s violent vision of Africa is hollow – and false
The Laughing Monsters has no tension – this is a sour, overwrought novel which fills a continent with cheap laughs and…
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The digital ducking stool
As Jon Ronson’s new book shows, public shaming is cruel, random and effective – and it flourishes when we have…
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Criminally Caledonian: on the art of detective fiction and the glory of “tartan noir”
Leo Robson looks at the traditions underpinning Ian Rankin’s The Beat Goes On and George Pelecanos’ The Martini Shot and Other Stories.
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Many gods, many voices: the Murty Classical Library is uncovering India’s dazzling literary history
The Murty Classical Library of India tackles a multilingual, epic tradition.
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