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Modernity is supposed to be the moment when religious claims and systems of authority reveal themselves to be human-all-too-human fictions t...

" When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring" says the ...

Martin Amis' novels were among those I read when I began reading novels – one read what was being talked about on television and in news...

Thirteen years ago I posted The beginning of something to mark the fifteenth anniversary of Spike Magazine (not to be confused with Spiked...

Published in 1912, it’s about the fall of the repressed writer Gustav von Aschenbach, when his supposedly objective appreciation of a young...

“This novel gives the reader one of the best depictions of thinking in fiction that I have read in a long time” – Talking Big "... comb...

Last December I was fortunate enough to borrow a copy of The Unmediated Vision , Geoffrey Hartman's first book, published in 1954. It is...

"Here it comes: the information dumping..." From section 237, page 185 of Ellis Sharp's latest novel , the part that is commen...