by Dave Bradley | May 31, 2018 | Book, Books, Music, Reviews
Margo Jefferson (Granta) 2018, 144pp, RRP $22.99 Jefferson’s brisk biography of Michael Jackson didn’t win her the Pulitzer Prize For Criticism (as the cover seems to suggest) but is still fascinating, idiosyncratic and rather disturbing, as it details the many faces...
by Dave Bradley | Apr 25, 2018 | Books, Reviews
Carmen Maria Machado (Profile) 2018, 243pp, RRP $24.99 Machado has somewhat defied description for some time now, with her writing straddling horror, sci-fi, psychodrama, women’s erotica and ‘queer’ genres, and this collection of short stories includes examples of all...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 15, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Noah Isenberg (Faber) 2017, 334pp, RRP $49.99 As the years roll by so many movies fade into obscurity, and yet somehow Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942) remains untouchably beloved, and Isenberg here attempts, at great, often delicious length, to find out why. Using...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 15, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Liz Lawler (Bonnier) 2018, 362pp, RRP $29.99 Lawler’s first novel is set in her home city of Bath and benefits considerably from her 20 years’ experience as a nurse, meaning that the medical talk sounds sometimes scarily genuine and rather excuses the occasional air...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 15, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Tom Lee (Granta) 2017, 153pp, RRP $24.99 A short story writer and academic, Lee’s first (and rather slim) novel is a crisply-written study of the plight of a titular character whom it’s almost impossible to like, which some readers might find odd or off-putting and...
