The second novel by Every Time I Die frontman, Keith Buckley, is a short but brilliant book about what happens when you're forced to bear witness to the events of your past. It follows Scale, published in 2015, and while it carries some stylistic similarities with that book, which centres on an …
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Travel Guide: Barcelona by the Barri
Ah, summer. Finally on its way, and always around this time of year, I get a barrage of messages from friends and colleagues telling me they're off to Barcelona, and have I got any tips on what to do and where to go? Yes. Yes, I do. So, in an effort to save repeating myself, I thought I'd put …
Book Review: The Sound of Loneliness, by Craig Wallwork
Daniel Crabtree comes from a long line of young writers who believe that great work is born only from great suffering. Accordingly, Crabtree has left the comfort of his parents' home to live alone, in an unfurnished apartment in Salford, where he survives on a diet of flour and John Smiths. Inspired …
Book Review: Sisyphean, by Dempow Torishima
Originally published in 2013, and translated here by Daniel Huddlestone, Sisyphean—a word that refers to a task that can never be completed—is a work of mind-boggling complexity and almost uncategorizable weirdness. Incorporating elements of horror, mystery, Japanese folklore, interstellar space …
Prose poem: Love Day Was Yesterday
I often wonder: do those people who post online about their fantastic day, their wonderful partner, their sheer joy at being alive—do they read what others write? Or rather, perhaps, what others don’t write? Do they see the empty spaces? Or do they just check in to self-congratulate? To thank their …