The good people at The Stockholm Review have run a story of mine in their new issue. Read 'Tomatoes' here

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

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

 

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

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

My book of the year was Tony Tulathimutte's Private Citizens. Here's a round-up of the best fiction of 2016 for Review 31

Here's my piece on Tony Tulathimutte's brilliantly caustic debut, Private Citizens, in Literary Review