Magnificent Octopus

A feature film based on Tom McCarthy's mindfuckingly awesome novel . A couple showings this week at Phi Centre . I think I need to see...

1.1 Satin Island , by Tom McCarthy, is one of my favourite books in recent history. 2.1 Some books I want to read cold. I don't want r...

I've played with personas, I've tried to compartmentalize my various selves, but it's too hard. It's contrary to my experi...

I'm only on page 51 of Tom McCarthy's Satin Island , and I think it's extraordinary. 5.7 His most famous riff, perhaps, was abo...

(Or, French books by guys mostly named Georges.) Madame Bovary , Gustave Flaubert A readalong brought to you by Frances (Nonsuch Book), ...

Why is it that some of the best books are often the hardest to write about? It must be that flush of first love with a book, the recognition...

C , by Tom McCarthy, is a very demanding, very rewarding novel. It took me a couple weeks to read it (and more than another week to work up ...

The scene occurs about a hundred years ago: Tonight, as on most nights, he starts out local, sweeping from two hundred and fifty to four h...

I'm having a hard time carving out some time to write in any reflective kind of way. I've been back from away for days, but tired, s...

When Catherine flew into London on the day the Settlement came through, I arrived at the airport just after her flight was due in. I saw fro...

I picked up Granta's sex issue a while ago as it seemed to feature even more than the usual lot of great and interesting-to-me writers....