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Home invasion – by the book

Laurent Mauvignier The Birthday Party
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A review of Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party

January 25, 2023 Books, Home

Review: “The Easy Life” by Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras The Easy Life
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Very few of Duras’s works have remained untranslated for so long, which poses the obvious question of why. Was the delay simply a product of happenstance? Or is this early novel not very good?

December 7, 2022 Books, Home

Review: “Yoga” by Emmanuel Carrère

Tapola, Matti, kuvaaja 1974
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Like Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping or Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, Emmanuel Carrère’s Yoga has the merit of not living up to the promise of its title.

October 10, 2022 Books, Home

Review: “The Last One” by Fatima Daas

Fatima Daas The Last One
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Fatima Daas’s The Last One is an autobiographical novel that presents an original and complex exploration of identity. A portrait of the protagonist, also called Fatima Daas, emerges through a series of vignettes that jump across time but take us ultimately from her childhood to her twenty-ninth birthday.

August 22, 2022 Academic Writing, Books, Home

Review: “The Doloriad” by Missouri Williams

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Missouri Williams’s debut novel, The Doloriad, is a wild and wholly original contribution to the growing genre of climate fiction. With its rich prose, dark humour and unsettling concentration on the very worst aspects of humankind, it’s a novel that is likely to split opinion.

March 4, 2022 Books, Home

Review: “Des chiffres et des mètres: la versification de Raymond Queneau” by Anne-Sophie Bories

If any twentieth-century French poet invites a methodical, quasi-mathematical approach to their work, it is Raymond Queneau, co-founder of the Oulipo and author of the proto-algorithmic Cent mille milliards de poèmes (1961).

November 26, 2020 Academic Writing, Books, Home

The Secret Life of Plants in Lucian Freud’s Paintings

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Looking at Freud’s paintings, one can sense this intuitively; plants are not charged with doing or saying something, they are just there, in all their quiddity.

October 24, 2019 Art, Books, Home

A Dreamy Rumination on Travelling by Moonlight

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The British novelist Will Self and the legendary illustrator Quentin Blake have teamed up on a new book — a dreamy rumination on travelling by the light of the moon.

October 3, 2019 Art, Books, Home

Review: “Before or After, at the Same Time: Rome, Milan, and Fabio Mauri, 1948-1968”

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Full article in Modern Painters magazine (October-November 2019).

September 26, 2019 Art, Books, Home

Review: “I Am Sovereign” by Nicola Barker

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“Post-modernist” is perhaps too weighty a word for such a joyous denouement, but, whatever you want to call it, “I Am Sovereign” makes many of the great masters of experimental literature look like they were just trying too hard.

August 22, 2019 Books, Home

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