The question opening Maurice Blanchot’s essay The Experience of Proust* has always drawn me back, not to secure a yes or a no, but to keep the quest…
Out of curiosity, I read a few novels that over the last year have received the highest praise on social media and literary podcasts, and have appear…
For a short time, I stayed up most of the night. In the long summer months between years at school – my guess is 1978 – there was no all-night radi…
We keep coming back and coming back To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns That fall upon it out of the wind. * Since its publication thre…
“It is not every day one is sent a masterpiece to review”, wrote Gabriel Josipovici in reviewing WG Sebald's The Emigrants ; “(I suppose one …