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The first story, after which this book is named, is a ludicrous circus romance between a Thin Man and his Fat Lady, who are ‘more or less the ultimate image of our common everyday romances’ taken to extremes…

The novel opens with les boat-people, a belittling term under which Vietnamese fleeing from occupied/liberated (depending on whom you are speaking to) Saigon became known to the world. We meet Bon and our Sympathizer right where we left them – making their way to France from a communist reeducation camp. You don’t have to read the first book to start this one (although why wouldn’t you?), a comprehensive brief is provided.

Back in the 1980s Wendell Berry argued that he does not need a computer to write, despite everyone around him saying so.

When someone announces on social media that they are going to take a break from it, we no longer smirk. What seemed funny and pretentious just a few years ago is considered wise and mindful these days…

This April it’s Jessie Greengrass and The High House, which tells the tale of a small group trying to survive in a flooded holiday village in England…

David Chang is a charming egomaniac, and his book Eat a Peach is a testament to his career as a chef…

This book is one of the most anticipated of 2021, not only because it was written by the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature…

It’s been a year since we collectively emptied store shelves and ran ourselves into product shortages, so when I read Don DeLillo’s words on supermarkets and their ability to give us ‘the sense of replenishment…