Johanna Thomas-Corr

To reflect on the brilliance of your writing, you had better be sure of its brilliance

6 October 2018 9:00 am

Nominative determinism is the term for that pleasing accord you occasionally find between name and profession: the immigration minister named…

Cries and whispers

17 June 2017 9:00 am

There’s a moment in A Boy in Winter where a young Ukrainian policeman has to escort his town’s Jewish population…

George Mackay Brown appears part-inspiration forAnnalena McAfee’s fictional poet Grigor McWatt

Dead poet’s society

25 February 2017 9:00 am

Alex Salmond, former first minister of Scotland, once claimed that he could always tell Scottish fiction from English. Novels, he…

George Mackay Brown appears part-inspiration forAnnalena McAfee’s fictional poet Grigor McWatt

Dead poet’s society

23 February 2017 3:00 pm

Alex Salmond, former first minister of Scotland, once claimed that he could always tell Scottish fiction from English. Novels, he…

Is this the American Houellebecq?

3 December 2016 9:00 am

I Hate the Internet is not so much a novel as a wildly entertaining rant. Jarett Kobek is a self-published…