18+ hour, 10+ min ago  (163+ words) Melissa Febos, aged thirty-five, serial monogamist, is having a bad time on the dating scene, and so decides to go cold turkey " to try to "meet [herself] unmediated by romantic and erotic obsession. That is: shes going to try celibacy…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago  (160+ words) Irene Sol, author of When I Sing, Mountains Dance, is back with I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Toward Darkness, first published in Spanish in 2023. An old woman, Bernadeta, is lying abed, breathing her eventual last, in an old…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (238+ words) I Want You to Be Happy is a generation gap comedy. Chuck is 35 and meets Joey, 23, after he breaks up with his fianc'e. Chuck has "a real job" as a copywriter but Joey is a barista. Chuck lives alone in…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago  (198+ words) Oxford is akin to life in a bubble which exists in parallel to the rest of the world, rather than being part of it. It is a fact the astute daughter of a renown suffragette is almost painfully conscious of:…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago  (608+ words) In the wake of his new book, Finders Keepers, Richard Clegg spoke to Nicholas Royle. Richard Clegg (RC): I've decided to do an interview with you re: Finders Keepers. You have created a sub-genre of literature, something like a guided…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (74+ words) Any Cop? : Not quite the book I thought it would be but interesting all the same. If you like this and fancy more of the similar, read Meat is Murder by Joe Pernice. Red Sheet by James Ellroy Land by…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago  (208+ words) There's an essay in Margaret Atwood's most recent collection of essays, Burning Questions, about the author Richard Powers in which she says: "there are books you read once and there are other books you read more than once because they…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago  (86+ words) Any Cop? : The Revolutionists is the kind of book that will have you chasing down other books to find out more about what is undoubtedly a fascinating period of history. You might just need a tough stomach for some of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (194+ words) In her last book, Islands of Abandonment, Cal Flyn explored those places that had once been home to people who, abandoned for various reasons, were free to develop in unexpected ways. In The Savage Landscape, Flyn moves in a different…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (352+ words) This is how I remember us: as blissful as children, ignorant of the dangers all around us, which in those years we weren't yet able to see, to name or to imagine." When Carlos leaves the interview he visits his…...