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It was a pleasure to cover Jacques Sternberg’s The Employee (@wakefieldpress.bsky.social) for @thetls.bsky.social. Matt Seidel's translation (The Employee’s first into English) is excellent.
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Molecules on strike
For the Belgian author Jacques Sternberg, attributions of genre were insults. Once heralded as “the best hope for French science fiction”, he proceeded to
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July 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
It was a pleasure to cover Jacques Sternberg’s The Employee (@wakefieldpress.bsky.social) for @thetls.bsky.social. Matt Seidel's translation (The Employee’s first into English) is excellent.
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Colm McKenna on letters from the orchestra minions
‘Acrobatics bereft of inner order’
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May 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Colm McKenna on letters from the orchestra minions
Had the pleasure of covering Hermann Burger's Diabelli (translated by @anathanwest.bsky.social and published by @wakefieldpress.bsky.social)
for this week's @thetls.bsky.social.
Diabelli by Hermann Burger | Book review | The TLS www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
for this week's @thetls.bsky.social.
Diabelli by Hermann Burger | Book review | The TLS www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
‘Acrobatics bereft of inner order’
In the title story of Diabelli – a collection of short fiction by the Swiss writer Hermann Burger (1942–89), first published in 1979 – a washed-up
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May 15, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Had the pleasure of covering Hermann Burger's Diabelli (translated by @anathanwest.bsky.social and published by @wakefieldpress.bsky.social)
for this week's @thetls.bsky.social.
Diabelli by Hermann Burger | Book review | The TLS www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
for this week's @thetls.bsky.social.
Diabelli by Hermann Burger | Book review | The TLS www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
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Gisèle Pelicot’s dignity; how Agnès Varda revolutionized cinema; Hamlet, via Grand Theft Auto; Djuna Barnes’s moral satires; expeditions to the North Pole – and much more.
This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
March 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Gisèle Pelicot’s dignity; how Agnès Varda revolutionized cinema; Hamlet, via Grand Theft Auto; Djuna Barnes’s moral satires; expeditions to the North Pole – and much more.
This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.co.uk/issues/cu...
Wrote about Sister on the Road/Boxcar Bertha (@akpress.org) for ExPat Press. A lovely "autobiography" and a sweeping portrait of the Depression Era.
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Home is Surrounded by Places to Go: Sister of the Road (Boxcar Bertha) by Ben Reitman – Colm McKenna - ExPat Press
Boxcar Bertha reflects a lost mode of living. It pays tribute to "the world of careless living detached from the rest of the world." Bertha had no formal education. Her mother was a hobo, drifting thr...
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February 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Wrote about Sister on the Road/Boxcar Bertha (@akpress.org) for ExPat Press. A lovely "autobiography" and a sweeping portrait of the Depression Era.
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“Like the reader, he has read through a book that purportedly celebrates a great man, while achieving the total opposite.”
Endless Leisure: Colm McKenna reviews Augosto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence.
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Endless Leisure: Colm McKenna reviews Augosto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence.
Read the full review at https://buff.ly/4gvCK7k
February 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Like the reader, he has read through a book that purportedly celebrates a great man, while achieving the total opposite.”
Endless Leisure: Colm McKenna reviews Augosto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence.
Read the full review at https://buff.ly/4gvCK7k
Endless Leisure: Colm McKenna reviews Augosto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence.
Read the full review at https://buff.ly/4gvCK7k
New review out in @therumpus.net. Great book. Punchy throughout, it's out to expose literary pretensions for what they are - boring obsessions that render meaningful conversations about books impossible.
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Endless Leisure: Augusto Monterroso’s The Rest is Silence - The Rumpus
Under the right eyes, everything that Torres touches turns to gold.
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February 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New review out in @therumpus.net. Great book. Punchy throughout, it's out to expose literary pretensions for what they are - boring obsessions that render meaningful conversations about books impossible.
therumpus.net/2025/02/10/t...
therumpus.net/2025/02/10/t...
A new title from @bhousepress.bsky.social comes to mind.
January 31, 2025 at 6:13 AM
A new title from @bhousepress.bsky.social comes to mind.
Wrote about a collection of Mario Levrero’s short stories for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social. I cannot recommend his work (in English translation from @andotherstories.bsky.social) highly enough. It makes the days stop repeating.
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A Snail’s Pace Suits Me Fine: On Mario Levrero’s “The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine” — Cleveland Review of Books
Levrero rewards his characters for having faith in false starts, knowing that certain times are conducive to certain events.
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January 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Wrote about a collection of Mario Levrero’s short stories for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social. I cannot recommend his work (in English translation from @andotherstories.bsky.social) highly enough. It makes the days stop repeating.
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🎉BOILER HOUSE PRESS IN THE TLS!!🎉
We’re delighted to share @colmmckenna.bsky.social review of Red House Alley (by Else Jerusalem), in the latest issue of the @thetls.bsky.social!
🔗Read the review here: www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
🔗Get the book here: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
We’re delighted to share @colmmckenna.bsky.social review of Red House Alley (by Else Jerusalem), in the latest issue of the @thetls.bsky.social!
🔗Read the review here: www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
🔗Get the book here: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
January 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🎉BOILER HOUSE PRESS IN THE TLS!!🎉
We’re delighted to share @colmmckenna.bsky.social review of Red House Alley (by Else Jerusalem), in the latest issue of the @thetls.bsky.social!
🔗Read the review here: www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
🔗Get the book here: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
We’re delighted to share @colmmckenna.bsky.social review of Red House Alley (by Else Jerusalem), in the latest issue of the @thetls.bsky.social!
🔗Read the review here: www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
🔗Get the book here: www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
Need new shoes, suddenly.
January 2, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Need new shoes, suddenly.
Wrote about the first full English translation of Red House Alley for @thetls.bsky.social. Cheers to @neglectedbooks.com and @bhousepress.bsky.social for snatching this from the jaws of obscurity! Always nice to see unfairly forgotten titles get another go around.
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Red House Alley by Else Jerusalem | Book review | The TLS
Now relegated to obscurity, Else Jerusalem’s novel Der Heilige Skarabäus, fully translated into English for the first time as Red House Alley,
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January 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Wrote about the first full English translation of Red House Alley for @thetls.bsky.social. Cheers to @neglectedbooks.com and @bhousepress.bsky.social for snatching this from the jaws of obscurity! Always nice to see unfairly forgotten titles get another go around.
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