The fun stuff, and other essays

The fun stuff : homage to Keith Moon --

W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz --

Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go --

Thinking: Norman Rush --

Cormac McCarthy's The road --

Edmund Wilson --

Aleksandar Hemon --

Beyond a boundary: Netherland as a postcolonial novel -- Wounder and wounded --

Robert Alter and the King James Bible --

Tolstoy's War and peace --

Marilynne Robinson --

Lydia Davis --

Containment: trauma and manipulation in Ian McEwan --

Richard Yates --

George Orwell's very English revolution --

Unfathomable!: (Mikhail Lermantov) --

Thomas Hardy --

Geoff Dyer --

Paul Auster's shallowness --

Reality examined to the point of madness: László Krasznahorkai -- Ismail Kadare --

English muddle: Alan Hollinghurst --

Life's white machine: Ben Lerner --

Packing my father-in-law's library.