A Christmas Day Backlisted podcast with Andy Miller, John Mitchinson, James Cook and me discussing Ian Fleming, Bond, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Listen here
Tuesday 26 December 2017
Saturday 23 December 2017
One of my favourite books of the year was Tom Rachman's collection of Trump tales, Basket of Deplorables. Here's my piece for Review 31
Wednesday 13 December 2017
A dirty great Big Mac of a book. My piece on UnAmerican Activities, James Miller's descent into the moronic inferno of 21st-century America, for Review 31
Monday 11 December 2017
My review of the essential anthology, Best European Fiction 2018 from the Dalkey Archive Press in the TLS
Wednesday 6 December 2017
I will be co-chairing a Dodo Ink Showcase with novelist and editor Sam Mills, at Burley Fisher Books on Wed December 13th. Speaking will be Dodo Ink authors Neil Griffiths, Seraphina Madsen, and James Miller. Do come along for mulled wine, and some daring, challenging fiction. Tickets here
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/HGJEFD
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/HGJEFD
Faith, doubt, and temptation are explored in As A God Might Be, an epic Dovstoevskian novel by Neil Griffiths. Here's my piece for Literary Review
Tuesday 29 August 2017
Delighted that Home, the short film I co-wrote with director Meena Ayittey, is getting its first screening on Thursday 31st August 2017 at the Hackney Picture House. Do come along.
The trailer for Home can be seen here
The trailer for Home can be seen here
Sunday 30 July 2017
I wrote about discovering Kawabata for the first time via a student of mine. One of those writers you don't know how you ever lived without... Here's my piece for Essay Saturday in Litro
Thursday 13 July 2017
I review two nightmarish dystopian novels, both from Serpent's Tail. Krasznahorkai's classic 1989 The Melancholy of Resistance, and Heinz Helle's recent second book, Euphoria. Read my piece for Review 31 here
Friday 23 June 2017
A year on from the EU Referendum comes Anthony Cartwright's incisive Brexit novella, The Cut. My review for the Guardian here
Monday 5 June 2017
Here's my piece on Joyce Carol Oates' brilliant & capacious new novel, A Book of American Martyrs, for Literary Review
Wednesday 24 May 2017
The beautifully produced Tangerine magazine have run a story of mine in their second issue. Read 'En Plein Air' here
Tuesday 9 May 2017
Edward Docx's compelling new novel, Let Go My Hand, explores fathers and sons, mortality, and the blended family. Here's my review in the Spectator
Monday 27 March 2017
The good people at The Stockholm Review have run a story of mine in their new issue. Read 'Tomatoes' here
Thursday 23 March 2017
The American short story renaissance continues with this collection of refugee tales, In the Country, from US-based Filipino writer, Mia Alvar. Out for a while now, I review it for Structo
Thursday 9 March 2017
Here's my review of Ross Raisin's exceptional new novel, A Natural (which explores how a secretly gay player negotiates the macho world of Premier League football), for the Guardian
Thursday 2 March 2017
An American short story Renaissance? Here's my review of four fierce new collections:
Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees,
April Ayers Lawson's Virgin and Other Stories,
Roxane Gay's Difficult Women,
Ottessa Moshfegh's Homesick for Another World Literary Review
Thursday 26 January 2017
I review two strong novels exploring refugees, migration and borders - Dorit Rabinyan's All the Rivers, and Armando Lucas Correa's The German Girl - for Litro
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