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Speedboat by Renata Adler. Jen Fain is, we gather, a journalist, working primarily in New York. I say "we gather" because there...

Yes, it's esoteric cricket records and factoids time again. Is that in tribute to the climactic stages of the 2023 Cricket World Cup ...

Here's a bit of random fun: you'll probably have all seen one or more of the various internet things that attempt to categorise put...

Here is the whisky news. And the whisky news is: I've run out of whisky! Yes, the bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label that I've be...

Transit by Rachel Cusk. We are back in the company of the protagonist of Outline . Or, rather, not really in her company, since one of the ...

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. War - war is stupid ; and people are stupid. Just a few of the thoughts that pass through the mind of Inm...

I see I didn't do a stats update in the wake of Europe's demoralising defeat in the 2021 Ryder Cup, so I guess a catch-up is in orde...

All That Follows by Jim Crace. Leonard Lessing is a jazz saxophonist. Pretty cool, right, only he's more of a former/lapsed jazz saxoph...

Against A Dark Background by Iain M Banks. Meet Sharrow. She only has the one name because she is a Proper Lady, descendant of a noble fami...

Here's an odd thing I noticed yesterday which I surely can't have been the first person to question, and which I'm mildly surpri...

In these febrile and uncertain times, a man likes to be able to fall back on certain, well, certainties - the depressing ones like death and...

As unpleasant as the outbreak described in The Plague was, it seems to have been a fairly small and localised outbreak by historical standa...

The Plague by Albert Camus. Welcome to Oran , on the north coast of Algeria. Hot, isn't it? But you can always have a dip in the sea, a...

been in a tent for quite a bit of the last week so seem to have missed that #RobbieRobertson has died. this is a nice version of his most f...