Jeppesen at the Door
Travis Jeppesen, who was recently interviewed in these pages, will be reading from his new novel, Wolf at the Door (Twisted Spoon Press), at the Calder Bookshop in London on Monday 8 October. The event is free and open to the public, and will begin promptly at 7pm. The Calder Bookshop is located at 51 […]
The New Laureate of Disappointment
Tom McCarthy is interviewed by Jonathan Derbyshire in this week’s Time Out (out 11 September 2007): “…’What’s interesting beyond the specific historical event, the collapse of communism, is that it’s the collapse of totality. Once totality’s gone, what happens next? …Both my books are about failed transcendence and the ways in which we inhabit the […]
Dandy in the Underworld
You see, left alone, a gay person is hardly gay at all, but put two such people together and they are four times as gay as they were separately. Four gay people are sixteen times as gay as two and so on. And where my friend does that leave me? Are you going to suck my cock while I am having this conversation with myself?
Sophie Parkin interviews Sebastian Horsley.
A Fear of Ideas
It’s not clear to me whether there’s enough reformist momentum for Muslim cultures generally to look outside of Islam and evolve, or whether conservative elements will prevail and compound the problem by insisting religion plays an even greater role in cultural and intellectual life.
David Thompson talks about Islam, freedom and denial with the Muslim novelist and exile Tahir Aslam Gora.