Category: Writers

21 May, 2013

Elleke Boehmer

A Writer of the World



13 May, 2013

Shivani Radhakrishnan

Zoning Out

Geoff Dyer's heavily footnoted paean to Tarkovsky tells us more about Geoff Dyer than anything else.


Stephanie Yorke

The Athletics of Poetry

The poet Sharon McCartney talks to Stephanie Yorke about rich reading, women writing, and endurance.


29 April, 2013

Jeremy Diaper

Old Possum and the Parrots

Life begins (again) at 40 for a tired T. S. Eliot in the latest volume of his letters, as Jeremy Diaper discovers.


18 March, 2013

Gabriel Roberts

Not Great

Gabriel Roberts finds this collection of late writing scattered, insubstantial, and unworthy of the late Christopher Hitchens.


3 March, 2013

Charles Nixon

Variations on Wallace

Charles Nixon finds too many faults in the latest posthumous collection of David Foster Wallace's writing.


Ceri Hunter

Jane Austen’s Material World

Paula Byrne gets big ideas from some very small objects in her new biography of Jane Austen, Ceri Hunter writes.


4 February, 2013

Rosie Lavan

Inspirations at Tricycle Theatre



Tom Cutterham

The Economy of Writing

Tom Cutterham considers money, the writing classes, and literary magazines in a new anthology from n+1 that contains some real gems.


31 January, 2013

Gabriel Roberts

Grammar Gripes