Colm McKenna

Colm McKenna has been a member of Linktree for 2 years and joined in September 2023. The social media accounts linked to from Colm McKenna are: • Instagram Besides social media accounts, colmfmckenna has populated their site with: • Youth and Despair • The End of Everything by M John Harrison: A rudderless spin on the post-apocalyptic story • What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton: A resonant take on the distance between reality and illusion • Light and Thread by Han Kang: An intriguing collection that does justice to its author’s singular voice • worldliteraturetoday.org • 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 • 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