'Don’t think of Watergate as being about a break-in, but about what the break-in exposed: dirty ops, dirty tricks, dirty money.'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/all-the-presidents-mendacity

'The leopard skins that she wore like a big-game hunter, the swaggering strut ... every detail semaphored power and valiantly atoned for inadequacy.'

Peter Conrad weighs up Laura Fairrie's documentary about Jackie Collins and her 'shag-happy fiction'.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/easy-writer

'Batlava Lake' is 'a sophisticated performance in which it can be difficult to determine where Mars-Jones himself is,' says Anthony Cummins.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/youre-in-the-army-now