Sartorial Stress

The Disgruntled Ruminations of an Office Worker Meant for Better Things

Paradise Found?

Anna Goodall pushes the Oyster to its limits in search of blind genius

Once More Unto The Beach

A Momentary Lapse of Reason

Mark Cobley reckons we should love Philip K Dick because, like all great writers, he was a little bit mad

The Long and the Short of it

Anna Goodall considers Ian McEwan’s brilliant early work

The Great Refrain Robbery

Fintan O’Higgins considers why nicking ideas from other writers should not be attempted by the common literary criminal

On Bumps and Books

Jenny Kingsley shares a lifetime in battered paperbacks

However, We Regret …

Extract from a novella

Still Singing

Flexibility: A Metaphysical Enquiry Into Articulation

Miss Me Forever

Portrait of Our Death

Elisa

The Vow

Sunset Park

Centre Point

Bipolar Bear

Ghost World

Screenplay by Daniel Clowes;
dir. Terry Zwigoff, 2001

The Rachel Papers

By Martin Amis
Jonathan Cape, 1973

Measuring Time

By Helon Habila
Hamish Hamilton, 2007

The Further Adventures of Charles Maxwell-House Esq.

Sir Charles gets out of the wrong side of bed

Penguin Pusher

Topping & Company