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Links to my published pieces.

Light and Thread by Han Kang: An intriguing collection that does justice to its author’s singular voice
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!: Liza Minnelli sets the record straight in revealing memoir
The pursued, the lover, the agoraphobe
The Undead: A zombified Lenin wreaks havoc on Moscow; the Russian state wreaks havoc on a film-maker
Telenovela by Gonzalo C. Garcia: Chile’s dark era revisited through a family drama
The Pelican Child by Joy Williams: Stories of everyday happenings with one eye on the troubling future
The Dinner Party by Viola van de Sandt: Distinct debut questions the nature of desire
Burdensome eternity
Michael Haag’s biography of Lawrence Durrell is important and often revelatory, but it is not neutral
Molecules on strike
‘Acrobatics bereft of inner order’
Erik Satie: Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman - Deft study of a composer who defies categorisation
José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas | Book review | The TLS
‘This Man Destroyed a Lot of Lives to Get the Answers He Was Looking For’: PW Talks with Alex Green
Home is Surrounded by Places to Go: Sister of the Road (Boxcar Bertha) by Ben Reitman – Colm McKenna - ExPat Press
Home is Surrounded by Places to Go: Sister of the Road (Boxcar Bertha) by Ben Reitman – Colm McKenna - ExPat Press
Endless Leisure: Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence - The Rumpus
My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria by Andrée Blouin – An intense history of colonialism
A Snail’s Pace Suits Me Fine: On Mario Levrero’s “The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine” — Cleveland Review of Books
Red House Alley by Else Jerusalem | Book review | The TLS
The Viaduct by David Wheldon | Book review | The TLS
The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton: Championing Werner Heisenberg, Immanuel Kant and Jorge Luis Borges
Childhood and Its Antecedents: On Alejandro Zambra’s Childish Literature — Cleveland Review of Books
Time of the Flies by Claudia Piñeiro | Book review | The TLS
Tricksy stories by a forgotten Chilean modernist
Not A River – Necessary Fiction
I’m a Fool to Want You by Camila Sosa Villada, translated by Kit Maude - Latin American Literature Today
The Plains by Federico Falco | Book review | The TLS
The Beguiling Crónicas of Hebe Uhart
The Dark Side of Skin by Jeferson Tenório
A Horror That Cannot be Helped - The Rumpus
Confession by Martín Kohan
No More Heroes | Dispatches Magazine
Pedro Páramo – Juan Rulfo
The Delivery – Necessary Fiction
A Mortal Education: Bernardo Zannoni's My Stupid Intentions - The Rumpus
Contagion artist
Never forget - The Latin American Review of Books
Amorphous and Proud—Colm McKenna on Augusto Higa Oshiro