Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
All my fiction until now has been an attempt to set a bonfire to my family’s past, to burn away all my family’s shame and tragedy and failure. Goat Mountain is the end of that. David Vann on his new novel, out 25 September.
Just possibly, the enigmatically titled “Childhood of Jesus” isn’t a dystopian fiction at all. Joyce Carol Oates reviews J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus in the New York Times.
‘Don’t take any sh*t if you can possibly help it,’ and more Read more
Let the Games Begin reads like an intellectual’s beach-read: romantic, full of plot and characters, but also teeming with ideas, symbols, dense metaphors, and complex satire. Vol. 1 Brooklyn reviews Niccolò Ammaniti’s latest novel.
The bibliotherapists behind The Novel Cure—a medical handbook of literary remedies—offer cures for such common bookseller ailments as ‘going under, fear of’ and ‘misanthropy’.
Van Booy’s new novel, The Illusion of Separateness, reprises this brilliance, with crackerjack storytelling (readers will feel crazy-hungry to know what happens) in language so clean and clear it seems to vibrate.
Helen Trinca has unearthed new material that sheds light on the work of Kenneth Mackenzie, author of The Young Desire It, our special Text Classic release for September. You can read David Malouf’s introduction to this ‘nearly perfect’ novel here.
‘There is nothing in this book that I didn’t love.’ Cory Doctorow on Robin Sloan’s Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
Can you pass an 8th-grade grammar quiz from 1912?
‘I’ll always be a writer, regardless of whatever else I’m doing to make a living. It’s a compulsion.’ Angela Savage, author of The Dying Beach, the latest in the Jayne Keeney PI series, Works with Words at the Wheeler Centre.
