This Space

This isn't the usual novel-author interview. As a reader of novels listening to interviews with novelists I'm almost always disappoi...

My old and very best of friends Mark Thwaite has taken over at the Left on the Shelf bookshop, so if you're at all interested in any of...

  When this post from  Max Cairnduff  appeared I had been reading Heidegger's lectures on Hölderlin's poetry and books and essays st...

A year of limited reading. Three books stood out: Peter Brown's Journeys of the Mind , Giorgio Agamben's Self-Portrait in the Studio...

Today in 2015 my blog-collection  This Space of Writing was published as a book . An ideal Christmas gift. Not a happy memory to be honest;...

Much of online activity related to literature involves posting quotations from novels, invariably without commentary and attributed to the b...

Byung-Chul Han says in The Crisis of Narration that modernity "is animated by a belief in progress" and its narratives "radi...

My disappointment with the contemporary novel has been an occasional feature on this blog. Fourteen years ago I asked myself whether I had ...