Hipsters, irony and The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

On Sisyphus, Camus, knowledge and Chaim Potok’s In The Beginning

Of late it seems that I am being haunted by intertextuality. Each book that I pick up seems to…

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On this week’s Podmentum we talk to Steph Campisi from review site Read in a Single Sitting about reviews and book blogging, and we get to hear the audio debut of Koraly Dimitriadis‘ new poem, Fuck Off. You can find out more about Love and Fuck Poems by Koraly Dimitriadis here.

Writers, writing and Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle

When reading PG Wodehouse’s Love Among the Chickens recently I was struck by the narrator’s…

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Thoughts on Love Among the Chickens by PG Wodehouse

Love Among the Chickens is my first foray into the work of Wodehouse; and as a fairly early work,…

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Chance, fate and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Einmal ist keinmal.

What happens but once might as well not have happened at all…

The story that…

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In Susan Hill’s A Change for the Better Deirdre Fount finds herself traversing a path that is not the one she intended to venture down. Though she might have stumbled upon it of her own accord, her marathon trek along it is due to a mix of personal…

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Review: Journey from Venice by Ruth Cracknell

Venice is the only place in Italy I’ve been to–unless the countryside scudding along outside the…

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Review: Possessed by Niki Valentine

I’ve always had qualms about the “if you like X you’ll like Y!” comparison trick that seems to be…

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Review: Barefoot by Elin Hilderbrand

Elin Hilderbrand’s Barefoot opens with a scene akin to a drawn-out framing shot in a Steven…

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