Benjamin Eastham 
An introduction to Javier Marías
The fundamental purpose of the literary critic is to incentivise his audience to read books of which he approves. He has two means at his disposal. The first of those… Continue reading
2 CommentsBurroughs’s beat
William S. Burroughs is, alongside Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, the third part of the Beat generation’s holy trinity. Yet while those two were long ago ushered into the canon,… Continue reading
4 CommentsChildish things
As the publishing industry comes to terms with the latest reports that the book is dead — this time at the hands of a digital revolution — we can count… Continue reading
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The first thing to tell you about Lars Iyer’s Dogma is that it is very funny. It didn’t make me laugh out loud on the tube, which seems to be… Continue reading
1 CommentPure puff
The era immediately preceding the French Revolution presents such rich pickings for the historical novelist that the relative scarcity of English-language fiction set in the period comes as a surprise.… Continue reading
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