Review 31
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An online literary review. Est. 2011
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"Pester has a precise ear for the frictionless formulations of contemporary organisational life that promise progress while pointing at nothing. These empty signifiers become a source of dread rather than comedy."
Robert Kiely on THE EXPANSION PROJECT
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Robert Kiely on THE EXPANSION PROJECT
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Scope Creep
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November 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Pester has a precise ear for the frictionless formulations of contemporary organisational life that promise progress while pointing at nothing. These empty signifiers become a source of dread rather than comedy."
Robert Kiely on THE EXPANSION PROJECT
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Robert Kiely on THE EXPANSION PROJECT
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"The internet is cooked. What began as a genuinely participatory medium ... has since become an extractive device, mining human creativity for corporate profit."
Christopher Webb on Joanna Walsh's AMATEURS!
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Christopher Webb on Joanna Walsh's AMATEURS!
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‘Some of what we did became a thing'
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November 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"The internet is cooked. What began as a genuinely participatory medium ... has since become an extractive device, mining human creativity for corporate profit."
Christopher Webb on Joanna Walsh's AMATEURS!
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Christopher Webb on Joanna Walsh's AMATEURS!
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At the Desk
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September 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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"It’s in the precarious middle zone between personal rage & systemic failure that disaster nationalism mutates."
Tymek Woodham on Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism
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Tymek Woodham on Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism
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The Ground Beneath Our Feet
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September 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"It’s in the precarious middle zone between personal rage & systemic failure that disaster nationalism mutates."
Tymek Woodham on Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism
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Tymek Woodham on Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism
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"The result is a book that emerges as of a spell: of preservation, but also a conjuring of memories that have been lost or deliberately forgotten."
Jemima Skala on Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night
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Jemima Skala on Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night
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Myth and Supposition
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September 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"The result is a book that emerges as of a spell: of preservation, but also a conjuring of memories that have been lost or deliberately forgotten."
Jemima Skala on Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night
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Jemima Skala on Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night
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hello Bluesky I wrote an article about the French author, photographer, and conceptual artist Édouard Levé, who wrote a book called “Suicide” and then immediately killed himself
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The Foundational Act
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September 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
hello Bluesky I wrote an article about the French author, photographer, and conceptual artist Édouard Levé, who wrote a book called “Suicide” and then immediately killed himself
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“The result is a book that emerges as of a spell: of preservation, but also a conjuring of memories that have been lost or deliberately forgotten.”
In @review31.bsky.social, Jemima Skala reviews Olga Tokarczuk’s newly translated novel, “House of Day, House of Night” review31.co.uk/article/view...
In @review31.bsky.social, Jemima Skala reviews Olga Tokarczuk’s newly translated novel, “House of Day, House of Night” review31.co.uk/article/view...
Myth and Supposition
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September 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
“The result is a book that emerges as of a spell: of preservation, but also a conjuring of memories that have been lost or deliberately forgotten.”
In @review31.bsky.social, Jemima Skala reviews Olga Tokarczuk’s newly translated novel, “House of Day, House of Night” review31.co.uk/article/view...
In @review31.bsky.social, Jemima Skala reviews Olga Tokarczuk’s newly translated novel, “House of Day, House of Night” review31.co.uk/article/view...
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Very grateful to Hugh Foley and @review31.bsky.social for this thoughtful and perceptive review of Poor Ghost!
So much to answer for
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August 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Very grateful to Hugh Foley and @review31.bsky.social for this thoughtful and perceptive review of Poor Ghost!
"Little Pink Book doesn’t just perform dandyism; it participates in what Fredric Jameson famously called pastiche: a ‘blank parody’ that imitates style without satirical intent or critical edge."
Elena Basada on Olivia Kan-Sperling's LITTLE PINK BOOK
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Elena Basada on Olivia Kan-Sperling's LITTLE PINK BOOK
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Moodboard Maoism
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August 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Little Pink Book doesn’t just perform dandyism; it participates in what Fredric Jameson famously called pastiche: a ‘blank parody’ that imitates style without satirical intent or critical edge."
Elena Basada on Olivia Kan-Sperling's LITTLE PINK BOOK
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Elena Basada on Olivia Kan-Sperling's LITTLE PINK BOOK
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“‘Cautery’ follows two women, one real and one imagined, one left unnamed and one semi-forgotten to history.”
In @review31.bsky.social, Bronwyn Scott-McCharen reviews Lucía Lijtmaer’s newly translated novel, “Cautery” - review31.co.uk/article/view...
In @review31.bsky.social, Bronwyn Scott-McCharen reviews Lucía Lijtmaer’s newly translated novel, “Cautery” - review31.co.uk/article/view...
Women's Fiction
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July 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“‘Cautery’ follows two women, one real and one imagined, one left unnamed and one semi-forgotten to history.”
In @review31.bsky.social, Bronwyn Scott-McCharen reviews Lucía Lijtmaer’s newly translated novel, “Cautery” - review31.co.uk/article/view...
In @review31.bsky.social, Bronwyn Scott-McCharen reviews Lucía Lijtmaer’s newly translated novel, “Cautery” - review31.co.uk/article/view...
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“The object of fixation becomes an instrument for self-flagellation, rather than a breathing person to know and to love.”
In @review31.bsky.social, Brynn Valentine reviews Harriet Armstrong’s debut novel, “To Rest Our Minds and Bodies” - review31.co.uk/article/view...
In @review31.bsky.social, Brynn Valentine reviews Harriet Armstrong’s debut novel, “To Rest Our Minds and Bodies” - review31.co.uk/article/view...
To Be a Machine?
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July 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“The object of fixation becomes an instrument for self-flagellation, rather than a breathing person to know and to love.”
In @review31.bsky.social, Brynn Valentine reviews Harriet Armstrong’s debut novel, “To Rest Our Minds and Bodies” - review31.co.uk/article/view...
In @review31.bsky.social, Brynn Valentine reviews Harriet Armstrong’s debut novel, “To Rest Our Minds and Bodies” - review31.co.uk/article/view...
"Tham's simple call is radical: sex is more than 'just sex', for it is social and socially 'spoken'."
Gabrielle Sicam on Revolutionary Desires
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Gabrielle Sicam on Revolutionary Desires
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The Future is Erotic
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May 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"Tham's simple call is radical: sex is more than 'just sex', for it is social and socially 'spoken'."
Gabrielle Sicam on Revolutionary Desires
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Gabrielle Sicam on Revolutionary Desires
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"The old guard of self-consciously male writers would have found only the comic, the satirical even, in such a colossus of inarticulacy as Istvan; what Szalay finds, however, is something universal."
@cosmoadair.bsky.social on David Szalay's FLESH
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@cosmoadair.bsky.social on David Szalay's FLESH
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‘They’re interesting to look at in some way’
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April 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"The old guard of self-consciously male writers would have found only the comic, the satirical even, in such a colossus of inarticulacy as Istvan; what Szalay finds, however, is something universal."
@cosmoadair.bsky.social on David Szalay's FLESH
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@cosmoadair.bsky.social on David Szalay's FLESH
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"What does it mean to write for the future when the possibility of any future at all is thrown radically into doubt?"
Jon Repetti on two Attilas
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Jon Repetti on two Attilas
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Laocoön’s Gaze: On Aliocha Coll, the Two <I>Attila</i>s, and the Literature of No Future
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April 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"What does it mean to write for the future when the possibility of any future at all is thrown radically into doubt?"
Jon Repetti on two Attilas
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Jon Repetti on two Attilas
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"What does it mean to write for the future when the possibility of any future at all is thrown radically into doubt?"
Jon Repetti on two Attilas
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Jon Repetti on two Attilas
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Laocoön’s Gaze: On Aliocha Coll, the Two <I>Attila</i>s, and the Literature of No Future
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April 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"What does it mean to write for the future when the possibility of any future at all is thrown radically into doubt?"
Jon Repetti on two Attilas
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Jon Repetti on two Attilas
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February 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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"Self-knowledge alone simply isn’t going to cut it; to really understand the way ‘anger drives the world’, one must look beyond the heuristic of the individual."
Tymek Woodham on Josh Cohen's All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World (@grantamag.bsky.social)
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Tymek Woodham on Josh Cohen's All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World (@grantamag.bsky.social)
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Anger Is an Energy
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February 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Self-knowledge alone simply isn’t going to cut it; to really understand the way ‘anger drives the world’, one must look beyond the heuristic of the individual."
Tymek Woodham on Josh Cohen's All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World (@grantamag.bsky.social)
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Tymek Woodham on Josh Cohen's All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World (@grantamag.bsky.social)
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"Sophistry & syllogisms paint all anti-war protesters as antisemitic terrorist sympathisers. These are hackneyed but maddeningly effective strategies..."
@tadhghoey.bsky.social on Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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@tadhghoey.bsky.social on Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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There’s No Such Thing as Other People’s Children
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February 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Sophistry & syllogisms paint all anti-war protesters as antisemitic terrorist sympathisers. These are hackneyed but maddeningly effective strategies..."
@tadhghoey.bsky.social on Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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@tadhghoey.bsky.social on Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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February 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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"Childishness & adult language-use are persistently, & with vicious irony, switching scales: ‘pointing it up while scaling it down.’ This can induce wild laughter, but also unbearable gravity."
@jackbarron93.bsky.social on the poetry of J.H. Prynne
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@jackbarron93.bsky.social on the poetry of J.H. Prynne
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All Jokes Aside
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February 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"Childishness & adult language-use are persistently, & with vicious irony, switching scales: ‘pointing it up while scaling it down.’ This can induce wild laughter, but also unbearable gravity."
@jackbarron93.bsky.social on the poetry of J.H. Prynne
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@jackbarron93.bsky.social on the poetry of J.H. Prynne
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"Few Anglophone film critics of the last 50 years have been as humble, curious or open-minded as Jonathan Rosenbaum."
Sam Warren Miell reviews In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader
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Sam Warren Miell reviews In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader
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Clean-shaved, Well-behaved
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February 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
"Few Anglophone film critics of the last 50 years have been as humble, curious or open-minded as Jonathan Rosenbaum."
Sam Warren Miell reviews In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader
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Sam Warren Miell reviews In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader
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"A gap is emerging between poet & audience, one wrought by increasing professionalisation & the competition for tax-funded prize money which incentivises stylistic experimentation."
Joshua Abbey on Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse
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Joshua Abbey on Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse
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Informative, All Too Informative
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February 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"A gap is emerging between poet & audience, one wrought by increasing professionalisation & the competition for tax-funded prize money which incentivises stylistic experimentation."
Joshua Abbey on Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse
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Joshua Abbey on Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse
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“The English soul is characterised, for Ackroyd, by a particular combination of intense spiritual mysticism & pragmatic flexibility in the realm of doctrine.”
Archie Cornish on Peter Ackroyd’’s The English Soul
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Archie Cornish on Peter Ackroyd’’s The English Soul
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Unchanged since Bede
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February 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“The English soul is characterised, for Ackroyd, by a particular combination of intense spiritual mysticism & pragmatic flexibility in the realm of doctrine.”
Archie Cornish on Peter Ackroyd’’s The English Soul
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Archie Cornish on Peter Ackroyd’’s The English Soul
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All Jokes Aside
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February 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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