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 …
Tag Archives: Literary criticism
Short Story Review: Fly Away Home.
Marina Warner is a feminist historian and novelist; her latest book Fly Away Home was published last September. Twenty short …
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 …
Short Story Review: Three Moments of an Explosion.
After my rare expeditions out of the Edwardian period and into modern “weird” fiction, I have usually returned disappointed. Thomas …
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 …
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 …
Book Review: Weathering.
[The following contains spoilers.] Lucy Wood’s Weathering is both a debut novel and that difficult second book. I approached it …
Short Story Review: Young Skins.
It’s very hard to write about Colin Barrett’s debut collection of short fiction, Young Skins, without resorting to gender as …
Book Review: The Tell-Tale Heart.
The eighth and latest novel from the English author Jill Dawson initially appears to share nothing other than a name …
Book Review: Printer’s Devil Court.
[The following contains spoilers.] Susan Hill’s Printer’s Devil Court was first published as a Kindle Single last year and as …
Short Story Review: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher.
There are ten short stories in Hilary Mantel’s latest collection, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, all of them published, mostly …
Book Review: Descent.
[The following contains spoilers.] Ken MacLeod goes to great trouble to try and disqualify his writing as literature. As usual, …
Short Story Review: Dear Life.
[The following contains spoilers.] Dear Life (2012) is Alice Munro’s latest and possibly last collection of short stories. If, like …
Short Story Review: The Rajah’s Diamond.
Each of the short stories within Robert Louis Stevenson’s New Arabian Nights (1878) adopts a needy young man as their …
