Book Review: Weathering.
[The following contains spoilers.] Lucy Wood’s Weathering is both a debut novel and that difficult second book. I approached it …
Tag Archives: Literary criticism
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 …
TV Review: The Tractate Middoth.
Why can’t the poor old BBC make ghost stories anymore? In 1968, Jonathan Miller directed an eerie, nerve-wracking adaptation of …
Short Story Review: The Suicide Club.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s three tales about the Suicide Club emerge from a heartfelt appreciation of romance, which is at once …
Book Review: William Maginn and the British Press.
Is judgement finally nigh for the doctor? Until now nobody has written a complete biography of Doctor William Maginn (1794 …
Book Review: Rennie Sparks’ Wilderness.
I have been always faintly embarrassed by music journalism and one of the founding resolutions of this website was to …
Short Story Review: Republics of the Mind.
[Tychy is nothing if not a writer and reviewer of short stories: this website to date features over eighty short …
Book Review: The Magician.
[The following contains spoilers.] There is a lot of bad blood to W. Somerset Maugham’s The Magician (1908). If this …
Book Review: When the Edelweiss Flowers Flourish.
[The following contains spoilers.] Tychy has been given a gift: a new English translation of Begenas Sartov’s 1978 novel When …
