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Despair & the Classics (short story)
“I had always been making a complex pretension to myself: that being happy with you would allow me not to be a writer, that writing could be relegated…
Mar 22
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Some notes from BLF, and the Indian novel I think is the year’s best (and I haven’t even finished it!)
Dec 24, 2025
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A story in Granta
… and a couple of other (very short) stories, from an old old computer
Nov 27, 2025
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A new anthology featuring my work
And a couple of other cool things…
Sep 24, 2025
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echoes & originals, again
My 4-week short-story-writing program is accepting new registrations
Sep 4, 2025
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William Trevor’s architecture of compassion
Plus the necessary invention of Miss Mullover, minor character par excellence
Aug 13, 2025
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Crossing the Viliya
Social media and the writer’s life
Aug 3, 2025
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How minor must a minor character be?
The answer might lie in how self-defining their profession is, and whether taking them out of it interests the novelist
Jul 12, 2025
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Joy in Sebald
… and a couple of discoveries that, I sadly discovered, had already been discovered
Jun 21, 2025
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A translation win is a win for Indian English
… which is great, except for essentialists who don’t rate us Englishwaalas
May 29, 2025
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