The commentary for the first volume of Samuel Beckett’s letters, 1929-1940, is kind enough to give us a copy of a private criticism of one of Beckett’s first works, ‘Echo’s Bones’, by Michael Roberts, in which the correspondent asks, in frustration, “What is their virtue apart from the negative one...
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Jon Ware casts a glance at Terry Pratchett's oeuvre, reminding us that we cannot afford to forget about him too quickly.
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Jon Ware talks with Alex Freer, editor of new Warwick-based poetry magazine Angelic Dynamo.
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Naomi Klein wins the inaugural Warwick Prize for Writing, John Ware attends the bizarre but brilliant awards evening.
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Of the six books on the Warwick Prize for Writing shortlist, only one, Montano’s Malady, was fiction. An elaborate pan-literary game was facing up against histories of music and mental illness, a scathing attack on US political economists, an investigation of the state-sponsored murder of a Guatemalan priest, and a...
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Barely twitching: Peter Ackroyd's Frankenstein rewrite is flimsy, says Jon Ware.
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