Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive and at the same time held together by a personal voice and a polemical point.
Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.
In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located... Læs mere
Looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body.
A memoir of Dublin in the 1980s and 1990s, and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life, by Brian Dillon, ‘one of the true treasures of contemporary literature’ (Mark O’Connell).