BOOKS

Martin Rowson on the original unfilmable (and indeed unreadable) ‘anti-novel’, Tristram Shandy.

How to push for more, beam more… or just carry on being your cheese-eating self.

As England hang on by their fingernails at Euro 2024, Seth Burkett looks back at a rather different type of international football: his season as a pro footballer in Sri Lanka.

A playlist by Aug Stone, inspired by his new collection of stories, Sporting Moustaches.

An extract from City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes, and its People by Jessica Wärnberg.

A bristly story by Aug Stone, from his new collection, Sporting Moustaches.

How It Started… How It's Going. Alexander Larman writes his way into a trilogy about the Windsor family.

An extract from Daybreak, the brand new novel by Matt Gallagher.

Sentences from my new book flagged for correction by the Inclusiveness Editor in Microsoft Word. (With suggested corrections.)

Full inventory of souvenirs and other purchases from my trip to Lima and environs, last December.

On the sanctity of Britain’s blue plaque scheme—and the delightful hoaxes it inspires.

A bibliophile confesses.

UPDATED DAILY from December 1 through to December 24, Emigre writers on the books they would be happy to receive for Christmas.

A near miss on honeymoon in Sri Lanka.

An extract from Remember Me by Charity Norman, winner of the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel.

Upon thorough exagmination, a complete list of the misprints in my Finnegans Wake.

How Shehan Karunatilaka’s Chats with the Dead became Booker Prize winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

ASH Smyth reviews Chats with the Dead.

A Q&A with reigning Booker Prize champion Shehan Karunatilaka.

An extract from Jack Grimwood’s forthcoming thriller, Arctic Sun—out this month from Penguin Michael Joseph.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX and Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos are but modern-day reincarnations of Cazique MacGregor’s Poyais.

For credulous investors, Poyais was an exotic land of unparalleled opportunity.

Was the remarkable territory of Poyais—full of unbounded commercial and civic promise—all it was made up to be? Or was it simply too good to be true?

An extract from James Morrison’s new novel Gibbons, or One Bloody Thing After Another.

The modern-day conflict of Arab and Jew looks depressingly similar to the old modern-day conflict of Arab and Jew.

For World Albatross Day, The Emigre reports from somewhere towards the South Pole…

Martin Amis was someone I thought of as a kind of elder sibling, hero, avatar, even scapegoat.

Her family's got drama, her friends are all crazy / But she ain't giving up, her heart's feeling hazy.

Eric Stroud whiles away a long weekend with the audiobook of Ian Fleming’s third novel—and live-tweets his increasingly-bemused reactions.

An extract from Yudhanjaya Wijeratne’s email novel about a Kafkaesque, near-future Sri Lanka, and about the stupidity of it all.