Books to buy in the first few months of 2019
A quick guide to the highly anticipated books coming out in 2019
Sequels and Spinoffs: serving commercial or creative interests?
What are the impacts of adding to a fictional universe?
‘A bit of Bah Humbug’: Christmas in Great Expectations
Dickens is the perfect post-Christmas antidote to anyone exhausted by the festive season
Milkman by Anna Burns: a pertinent portrait of life during the Troubles
An exploration of Anna Burns' The Milkman and its chilling relationship to the violence of the Troubles.
On Reading Lists
Reading lists are springboards, not prescriptions
The Booker Prize: a sure-fire selection or a shot in the dark?
Chance, market concerns, and bias make the intrinsic superiority of winners doubtful
Café circuit: Cafe W
Cafe W is the best place to work over a coffee
Childhood’s Clarity in ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’
The Ocean at the End of the Lane opens with an epigraph from Maurice Sendak, “I remember my own childhood vividly… I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them.”
Reversed: A Memoir
'One of the striking points the memoir illustrates is the level of abuse children with learning disabilities face, from teachers and others' says Kurien Parel
Patriotism and Chilean Poetry
Bridget McNulty discusses Hugh Ortega's debut collection and Chilean identity
I was overcome with a sense of familiarity, intermingled with strangeness
Beth James reflects on the forgotten female modernist poet, Hope Mirrlees
Daemon Voices Lecture Review – Two generations share the same world view
Pullman and Rundell make for an oddly cohesive pair at their talk in Blackwells.
García Marquez makes magical realism realistic
Barney Pite unpacks the "tragic, brutal and cruel" world of Márquez's News of a Kidnapping
Remembering Wallace: Biography and Memory
'The End of the Tour' is a powerful biopic, but by all accounts it gets David Foster Wallace wrong. Does that matter?