Infinite Ground by Martin MacInnes

Written for The Guardian   A Borgesian Maybe-Murder Mystery   Towards the end of this impressive and finely textured debut, there is a chapter entitled “What Happened to Carlos – Suspicions, Rumours, Links”. This is the only named chapter and it

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Esperanto: the language that never was

Witten for Prospect Magazine:   The Komedia Kvizo had started. Perhaps this would be instructive. I had hoped to get to the heart of the matter straight away. I had hoped to re-examine the biggest question of our times—the European Union referendum—but

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All That Man Is by David Szalay Review

For The Guardian: I once had a discussion with my first US editor, an old-school literary titan of 40 years’ experience, on the subject of overt existential angst in the novel. Her main message was that if you’re going to

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