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 …
Tag Archives: Literary criticism
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 …
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 – 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 …
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 …
