Most Recent writing / media – most of which is for The Guardian unless stated. My Guardian profile is here.
Books to Give You Hope: John Lahr’s Prick Up Your Ears
A Book to Share: Angela Carter’s Wise Children
Journeys in Literature: John Cheever’s The Swimmer
Kafka’s Metamorphosis and its Mutations in Translation
Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story by Victor Bockris review
Baddies in Books: Alex from A Clockwork Orange
The Peculiar Life of the Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault review
Setting the Records Straight – music memoirs
Time Out of Mind: The Lives of Bob Dylan by Ian Bell review
A Map of Tulsa by Benjamin Lytal book review
An Everywhere: A Little Book About Reading by Heather Reyes book review
Moscow Tales Guardian book review
The Death of the Novel Inscription G2 article
O Pioneers by Willa Cather Guardian book review
A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson by Peter J Conradi Guardian book review
Once Upon a Time – The Lives of Bob Dylan by Ian Bell Guardian book review
LoveSexTravelMusik by Rodge Glass Guardian book review
Sketches of Spain by Federico Garcia Lorca Guardian book review
White Masks by Elias Khoury Guardian book review
Southbank Centre Book Club feature for Time Out
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks Guardian book Review
Blindly by Claudio Magris Guardian book review
Interview with Robert Elms on BBC London about The Secret History of Second Hand Books
Darkness in Literature: Saul Bellow’s Something to Remember Me By
The secret contents of secondhand books
The Great Meadow by Elizabeth Madox Roberts Guardian book review
Interview with Paul Auster for Time Out
Below are the other literary pieces I’ve written for The Guardian (oldest at the bottom, most recent at the top).
The Reader Organisation: a mutual improvement society for modern times
Which out-of-print would you like to see republished?
My literary life-span project is nearly complete – can you help?
Winter Reads: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The fiction of literary friendship
Among the grown-ups: children in adult literature
Do too many authors spoil the book?
The secret stories of book inscriptions
Beginning a new year of reading
Taking another look at James Kelman
Take out holiday reading insurance: stick to novellas
Something Amis: Why I already feel shortchanged by the BBC’s Money
Martin Amis’s War Against Death
Verbal Valentines: Books That Make Perfect Couples
Reading Your Way Out of Depression
What Are Your New Year’s Reading Resolutions?
Why a Good Cover Makes a Good Book Better
The Dream of the Great Unfinished Novel
Is Holly Golightly The Great Gatsby In Drag?
Growing Up With Your Favourite Fictional Characters
I reviewed books for Time Out (RIP Time Out Books) and still write the occasional article
Especially for You
Miscellaneous
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