The way I most often describe Tennessee Williams’ memoirs to people is in emphasising the feeling that Williams […]
Book Review
In Wrestliana, Litt shares an anecdote, a family joke of how when his son was two, he would […]
Lydia Unsworth’s debut collection follows ‘you’ – sometimes ‘us’, or ‘me’, or ‘I’ – around Amsterdam: by foot, […]
At the time she was writing Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso’s personal diary was eight hundred thousand words long. Never […]
Angela Carter is as much a work of fiction now as any of her novels; to use her […]
In her memoir ‘Turning’, Jessica Lee swims in the lakes surrounding Berlin all year through, alone and in […]
When I think about empathy it’s always as opposed to sympathy; sympathy is often wetter, patronising sometimes, and […]
Anneliese Mackintosh’s debut short story collection begins on an unnumbered page, obscured among the standard initial copyright & […]
Franz Kafka is the modern template for ‘tortured genius.’ He once wrote that a book should be “an […]
Robert Macfarlane must surely be a rarity; he is not only a Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge, he […]