Somehow no one rumbled that I snuck onto a Killings columnist roster that otherwise contained nothing but champs. Me and the champs round out the year with our… Read more “2015’s Best Killings”
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ Suspiria
My final column for Kill Your Darlings is an interview with the inestimable Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. Her fine critical intelligence and quick infectious wit will be familiar… Read more “Alexandra Heller-Nicholas’ Suspiria”
Miles Allinson’s Fever of Animals
My take on Miles Allinson’s impressive but significantly flawed novel
Fiona Wright’s Small Acts of Disappearence
‘Wright’s use of the personal pronoun throughout is grounded and clarifying – weighted to illumination and analysis rather than expression.’ My take on Fiona Wright’s Small Acts… Read more “Fiona Wright’s Small Acts of Disappearence”
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts
My take on Maggie Nelson’s genre-busting memoir The Argonauts, in which I argue for the overthrow of the narrative. Incoherently, of course.
The Post-Imperial Pet Shop Boys
More than thirty years ago, UK electropop duo Pet Shop Boys surveyed their present pop moment and asked themselves, ‘Do you want to be rich?’ Unfortunately for… Read more “The Post-Imperial Pet Shop Boys”
She Calls the Shots: the provocation of violent women
‘…questions like ‘How could she?’ and ‘Why didn’t she leave?’ keep rattling around like knives in a drawer.’ Me on Virginie Despentes, Rihanna and Maggie Nelson up… Read more “She Calls the Shots: the provocation of violent women”
