For the Guardian, I reviewed the latest (and last?) novel by Michel Houellebecq. www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
The chaos element of the populist right disrupts Franceâs weary liberal regime, in a novel of sadness and eerie serenity that marks a new direction
We may, tragically, never get to see the film. For now though we can at least admire this brilliantly written, nuanced, deeply thoughtful account of it. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/08/m...
A revealing new documentary could redefine our understanding of the pop icon. But you will probably never get to see it.
Saturday 7th September, as part of the FT festival, Iâll be talking about the state of the nation and the state of the nation novel with @jonathancoe.bsky.social@frederick65.bsky.socialukftweekendfestival.live.ft.com/agenda
Join us for our annual UK edition, in London, online & on demand, on Saturday, 7 September 2024 for a chance for FTWeekend readers from all over the globe to engage with our journalists and one anothe...
I can't recommend enough Christian Lorentzen's broadside in Granta against a critical trend that treats literature as a corporate product and readers as consumers--a view that "amounts to a distracting narcissism, looking in the mirror when our eyes should be on the page." granta.com/literature-w...
âCorporate publishing is the channel through which literature happens to flow at this moment in history.â Christian Lorentzen dissects the literary establishment.
Relatedly, hereâs Christian Lorentzen on âan age when literary discourse is in flight from the literaryâ: âFiction recedes behind the chatter it generates and is judged according not to its intrinsic qualities but to the sort of reader whose existence it implies.â granta.com/literature-w...
Every month someone must step up and write a version of this article. Those are just the rules. www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
Men often read non-fiction books in the name of self-improvement â but many are reluctant to pick up works of fiction
Ali Breland in The Atlantic, offering a perspective on conspiratorial thinking and its structural underpinnings that I feel is absolutely correct.
Perhaps part of the problem is our total abandonment of adult language. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
âSad girl litâ is everywhere, but young men are glaringly absent from the contemporary canon of popular authors writing about sex and intimacy. Could that be about to change?
