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écouter (19 min)19 min Épisode 1 : Un an après LE 02/08/2021 Jacques Laruelle, cinéaste français, s'apprête à quitter le Mexique un an après le drame dont il a été témoin le 2 novembre 1938, jour des Morts. Réécouter "Sous le volcan" de Malcolm Lowry (2/20) : Geoffrey Firmin écouter (20 min)20 min Épisode 2 : Geoffrey Firmin LE 03/08/2021 Ancien consul britannique au Mexique, Geoffrey Firmin a écrit à sa femme, Yvonne, quelques mois avant le drame, sans jamais lui faire parvenir sa lettr...

With Carl Brandt, Frank Conroy, Leslie Fiedler, Ed Gorman, Robert Gottlieb, John Kashiwabara, Mark Moskowitz, Dow Mossman, William Cotter Murray, John Seelye. In 1972 a man reads a review of a new novel named The Stones of Summer in the New York Times. The reviewer believes it is one of the most extraordinary novels of its generation--a masterpiece. The man buys the novel, can't get into it, puts it on the shelf, moves it around with his books for years, and finally reads it. He thinks it's a masterpiece, too. He goes on the Internet to find out what else the author, Dow Mossman, has written...

Va ser José Carlos Cataño un escriptor d'una altra època: dandi elegant, transgressor del llenguatge i clàssic decadentista avant la lettre. Patriota tinerfeny, es va llicenciar a la Universitat...

by William Palmer (Robinson £20, 262pp) The size of my monthly Majestic Wine bill suggests author William Palmer is not wrong when he says that writers — ‘psychologically slippery’ at the best of times — are particularly prone to the joys and pitfalls of grain and grape. Booze, ‘at least at the outset, is hugely enjoyable’, Palmer says correctly. It is ‘an excellent buffer against social boredom,’ and any other sort of boredom. Drawing on the descriptions by Anthony Burgess and Kingsley Amis, In Love With Hell evokes the idyll currently denied us — the traditional street-co...

It’s a decade since Sunjeev Sahota published his debut novel, Ours Are the Streets, a bravura piece of imaginative intensity that took the form of a journal written by a would-be suicide bomber, a British Muslim of Pakistani descent, for his wife, a white British woman, and their child. The reader never discovered whether the planned explosion in a Sheffield shopping centre took place; that was peripheral to Sahota’s primary aim of exploring the cultural alienation and isolation that, in this instance, led his protagonist to radicalisation and violence. The occasional narrator of S...