Book Review: Riotous Assembly.
Tom Sharpe’s fiction can be compared to the single-wheeled electric scooter – a fantastic invention and widely admired, but one …
Category Archives: Literary Review
Book Review: The Evenings.
The Dutch Society of Literature has apparently voted Gerard Reve’s The Evenings: A Winter’s Tale the best Dutch novel of …
Book Reviews: The Precariat and Rise of the Robots.
A thought experiment to warm up with. Imagine that Google was an entirely corporeal phenomenon, like the National Library of …
Brighton Rock and “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.”
I was very struck last year when reading Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” (1953) …
The Character of Scheherazade.
Once upon a time Shahryār, the Persian king of all kings, was betrayed in love by his wandering wife. Shahryār …
Book Review: Secret Edinburgh, An Unusual Guide.
Edinburgh’s Doors Open Day, an event which is no doubt so wonkily titled to avoid the acronym ODD, will see …
Book Review – The Corporation Wars: Dissidence.
Now the hurly-burly’s done, or at least now that we are on the sunny side of Brexit, let us catch …
Book Review: GMO Sapiens, The Life-Changing Science of Designer Babies.
Paul Knoepfler is a scientist and an educator. He conducts research into stem cells and cancer at the University of …
Book Review: Nightwalking, A Nocturnal History of London.
My life is filled with the constant swish of walking. I live in Edinburgh, a capital city without a Tube …
Book Review: A Duty to Offend.
I still have a schoolboy tendency to mumble when faced with a pretty girl. The Blackwell’s till girl smiles with …
Book Review: The Casualties, A Novel.
[The following contains spoilers.] An incoming meteorite, after being presumably broken into several pieces by a botched nuclear strike, has …
Book Review: Empire of Fear, Inside the Islamic State.
Over a billion pounds of UK international aid is now going to alleviate the suffering of Syrian refugees, and the …
Is Atticus Still Atticus? (A Review of Go Set A Watchman.)
Let us start by considering the dubiousness of all this. Go Set A Watchman is a radical first draft of …
Book Review: Finding the Holy Path.
Kara-Choro, a boy on the cusp of manhood, learns that his father is Tagay-bii, the legendary leader of the Kyrgyz …
Short Story Review: Not Exactly Ghosts.
There are two volumes of Sir Andrew Caldecott’s short stories, Not Exactly Ghosts and Fires Burn Blue, which were published …
