'He wrote obsessively and at tremendous length – as a youth William drew a witty sketch of his father vigorously beating a dead horse – and frayed his nerves in the process.'

John Banville charts the turbulent life of William James.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-pragmatists-progress

'Everyone talks about the light on Hydra, but sometimes there’s a very good reason why everyone talks about something. The light on Hydra is bronze and blinding.'

Joanna Kavenna on Athens, the Inklings, and why Homer thought sheep were purple.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-call-of-the-wine-dark-sea

'Narratively speaking, "Antkind" doesn’t develop. It just continues. It’s a "New Yorker" Shouts & Murmurs squib inflated to Tolstoyan girth.'

@KevPow3 struggles through Charlie Kaufman's mammoth novel, 'Antkind'.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-laugh-a-month