Reading Books I Read in April 2025 From a plea for moral AI to a British state of the nation novel, here's what I read this month.
ReadingThinking The Shelf of Trump What if we could extract a creative and inspiring new reading project from the man at the centre of the dark times…
Reading Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn My take on the new novel by this Booker Prize winning author, in which the lives of a disparate set of characters…
Reading Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico My thoughts on Vincenzo Latronico's beautiful novel about millennial expats in Berlin, recently longlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Reading Borges Marathon, Part 18: Funes, His Memory My thoughts on Funes, His Memory, aka Funes the Memorious, a short fiction by Jorge Luis Borges about a man with an…
Reading Reading Wales Month: Clear by Carys Davies A church minister is sent to evict the last inhabitant of a remote island, but things don't go as planned.
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Reading What Is Literary Fiction Anyway? Literary fiction is hard to define, but I'm going to try anyway. The debate tends to be poisoned by debates about elitism…
Reading Books I Read in January 2025 With novels set in Malaysia, Russia, Germany, India and Serbia, along with some interesting non-fiction, here's what I read this month.