A piece of memoir for my March Substack: Read The Happiest Man Alive: My Iranian Uncle for free here

I reviewed Howard Jacobson's 18th novel, Howl, in the new edition of the TLS

Here's my review of Will Self's provocative new novel, The Quantity Theory of Morality, in the Spectator

Published by new small press Akoya, translated from the Danish into English by Martin Aitken, Helle Helle's They is a precise, controlled, unforgettable novella. Read my review in the Guardian

A February Substack essay from me. I wrote about 70s horror movies & broken families in Trust Exercise: The Horror Movie. Read it for free here