Monthly Archives: May 2008

[This brief notice of Adam Mars-Jones' novel Pilcrow appeared a while back in Time Out. I never got round to putting it up on the old site, so I thought I'd post it here. I wish I'd had the space to write a proper review, as it's a deeply interesting, deeply peculiar book.]
John Cromer, the [...]

Web habits

I’ve contributed to a symposium on Granta‘s splendid new website devoted to ‘The Web Habits of Highly Effective People‘ (I know, I know …).

Grub Street

A couple of short reviews of mine appeared yesterday in the Financial Times. The longer of the two pieces is a review of Poppy Adams’ first novel The Behaviour of Moths; the (much) shorter one of Julia Leigh’s novella Disquiet.

Metropole

This review of a newly-translated novel by the Hungarian writer Ferenc Karinthy appears in the latest issue of New Humanist.

METROPOLE by Ferenc Karinthy (trans. George Szirtes)
Telegram Books £8.99
Metropole, the first of Hungarian novelist Ferenc Karinthy’s books to be translated into English, comes garlanded with the most extravagant praise. The dust jacket carries the prediction of [...]