'The trouble seems to be that we are not asked to read this author, reading being a thing of the past. We are asked to decode him.'

From the archive, Derek Mahon peruses the early short fiction of Thomas Pynchon.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/rock-n-roll-is-here-to-stay

'There are at least two dozen members of the House of Commons today whose names I cannot read without laughing because I know what poseurs and place-seekers they are.'

From the archive, Christopher Hitchens on the Oxford Union.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/mother-of-unions