Review 31

"An eloquent, humane work of criticism, which displays Vendler's typical sensitivity to what Wordsworth called the ‘turnings intricate of verse.’" @BretVDB on Helen Vendler's INHABIT THE POEM: LAST ESSAYS review31.co.uk/article/view/9…

"There is a life outside of the costume, a role that’s not been written. It’s hard to find but it’s there." @tcmangan on Isabel Waidner's AS IF review31.co.uk/article/view/9…

I reviewed Helen Vendler’s marvellous “Last Essays” for @Review31! (Linked below)

"Doctorow’s style throughout is conversational, furious, funny. Each page crackles with analogies, jokes & anger. He is that rare activist who can make antitrust law read like a thriller." Christopher Webb on Cory Doctorow's ENSHITTIFICATION (@VersoBooks) review31.co.uk/article/view/9…

The Plains, by Federico Falco and translated by Jennifer Croft, is a "moving and beautifully made novel". Thank you @Review31! review31.co.uk/essay/view/134…

"If nature is unassimilable to metaphor, it’s also unassimilable to conventional narrative shapes. Like the crises afflicting it, nature is too open and expansive to be contained under the few acts of a plot’s arc." review31.co.uk/essay/view/134…

"If The Plains succeeds from an ecocritical perspective, it also illustrates the structural challenges posed by the climate crisis to the contemporary novel." Archie Cornish on Federico Falco's THE PLAINS (@CharcoPress) review31.co.uk/essay/view/134…

"The letters convey a picture of two writers in alternating states of vitality & decline, pushing against the threat of both illness & obscurity." Rachel Dastgir on LETTERS TO EUGENE (@SemiotextePress) review31.co.uk/article/view/9…

"Dog Days is a work that contends with the difficulty of committing words to a page, & letting them stay there." Julia Merican on Emily LaBarge's DOG DAYS (@PressPeninsula) review31.co.uk/article/view/9…

"For some, Piccadilly Gardens was scary & unsafe; for others it symbolised neoliberal privatisation of public space; for others still it held fond memories as a meeting place for friends & family." @pulpy_fiction on Morag Rose's FEMINIST ART OF WALKING tinyurl.com/5ak49h2u

was so delighted to review one of my favourite books of the year for @Review31 ! Read my piece on The Feminist Art of Walking on their website: review31.co.uk/article/view/9…

Our books of the year — as chosen by @judecook_, @pd_christie, @Hay47John, @anna_aslanyan, @MagnusRena, @w_j_davies, @culturalamnesia, @StuartWalton1, Denise Rose Hansen, Tadhg Hoey, Rosa Appignanesi, David Collard, Rónán Hession & Ben Philipps review31.co.uk/essay/view/133…

"Pester has a precise ear for the frictionless formulations of contemporary organisational life that promise progress while pointing at nothing. These empty signifiers become a source of dread rather than comedy." Robert Kiely on THE EXPANSION PROJECT review31.co.uk/article/view/9…

Excited to hear that David Szalay's Flesh has won this year's Booker. I wrote about it for @Review31 back in April👇

In response to MP Robert Jenrick's comment on his perceived "lack of integration" in Birmingham I wrote a piece on Birmingham and Britain's debt to the literary emigré that has been published today by @Review31. Link in comment.+

"The collection’s sentimentality can be broadly described as writing about nice things in order to illuminate the threads that connect us, reminding readers of things that make life worth living." @fmntaylor on Amlanjyoti Goswami's A DIFFERENT STORY review31.co.uk/article/view/9…