[This is the 21st instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] I wonder how many nations’ readers are familiar with the sensation of picking up a work of literary fiction and recognising in it the voices of five orRead more…
No Man’s Land Reading Project: Learning by Heart
[This is the twentieth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] A few weeks ago in a review of Anne Enright’s short story collection The Portable Virgin I made this observation: “[Short story collections seem] like something a publisherRead more…
No Man’s Land Reading Project – The Portable Virgin
[This is the nineteenth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] Anne Enright has come a long way since this collection of short stories put her on the map in Ireland and in attentive literary circles a couple ofRead more…
No Man’s Land Reading Project – The Poisonwood Bible
[This is the eighteenth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] I will probably realise this generalisation to be false not long after making it, but for now it’s helping me begin a review of a book which isRead more…
No Man’s Land Reading Project – The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
[This is the seventeenth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] Reviews of Kendrick’s debut album, contemplations of Lana Del Ray, treatises on the state of Coachella, dispassionate and analytical tear downs of Tyler, the Creator. Those areRead more…