Wells Tower’s Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned is one of the best collections of short stories that I have read in a long time. His unsentimental, often brutal yet always brilliant stories lay bare the lives of ordinary people, all trying to do the right thing is a world of alienation and hopelessness. Written with a…
Read more No 374 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower: Book 1 of #20booksofsummer22
I read Pierre Lemaitre’s novel Blood Wedding last year and very much enjoyed it so was keen to read more of his work. Inhuman Resources doesn’t disappoint, featuring a perfectly paced plot, thrilling narrative and ingenious structure. Middle-aged Alain Delambre had a stellar career before he was made redundant from his job in HR. Four…
Read more No 378 Inhuman Resources by Pierre Lemaitre, translated by Sam Gordon
Before his untimely death in 2015, David Carr was an acclaimed journalist, editor and culture correspondent for the New York Times. Ta-Nehisi Coates claimed that he owed his writing career to Carr’s support and Carr is often credited as the man who launched Lena Dunham thanks to his championing of the original script of Girls.…
Read more No 379 The Night of the Gun by David Carr