We Recommend – André Mangeot
Originally conceived as one book, André Mangeot’s remarkable collections A Little Javanese and True North introduce us to a compelling storyteller.
We Recommend – Daniel Kehlmann’s Fame
Katherine Orr recommends Daniel Kehlmann’s latest book, Fame.
We Recommend – Pulse
Soumya Bhattacharya reviews Julian Barnes’s long-awaited third story collection, PULSE, and finds it beating with the rhythms of life.
Annie Proulx’s Prairie Tales
Proulx’s narrative constructions display a unique mode of seeing and writing the world. The stories in Close Range contain some of those shimmering literary moments I have ingested and carry round with me as vividly as if I were a personal witness to them.
We Recommend – Félix Fénéon
Félix Fénéon (1861-1944) was an anarchist, publisher of Joyce, translator of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey into French, editor of avant-garde journals, coiner of the term ‘neo-impressionism’, possible bomb-maker, and a writer whose credo was ‘I aspire only to silence’. Bejamin Noys tells us more about this enigmatic writer…
We Recommend – The Boat by Nam Le
Katherine Orr admits… I have always felt frustrated by the stock advice to the young writer: write what you know.