Adam Mars-Jones

Adam Mars-Jones teaches at Goldsmiths. Second Sight, a collection of his film writing, is due in September.

In the LRB Archive:

• Faithful in the Dusk: Tessa Hadley · 15 August 2019

  • Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley

• The Twin Sister’s Twin Sister: Dag Solstad · 9 May 2019

  • Armand V.: Footnotes to an Unexcavated Novel by Dag Solstad, translated by Steven Murray
  • T. Singer by Dag Solstad, translated by Tiina Nunnally

• Sleepwalker on a Windowledge: Carmen Maria Machado · 7 March 2019

  • Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

• Oud, Saz and Kaman: Mathias Enard · 24 January 2019

  • Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants by Mathias Enard, translated by Charlotte Mandell

• Big Books · 8 November 2018

• The First Time: Sally Rooney · 27 September 2018

  • Normal People by Sally Rooney
  • Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

• I’m a Cahunian: Claude Cahun · 2 August 2018

  • Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson

• Leaves Sprouting on her Body: Han Kang · 5 April 2018

  • The Vegetarian by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
  • Human Acts by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
  • The White Book by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith

• Introversion Has Its Limits: ‘Essayism’ · 8 March 2018

  • Essayism by Brian Dillon
  • Sound: Stories of Hearing Lost and Found by Bella Bathurst
  • Proxies: A Memoir in Twenty-Four Attempts by Brian Blanchfield

• Endocannibals: Paul Theroux · 25 January 2018

  • Mother Land by Paul Theroux

• A Little Village on the Edge of the World: Mike McCormack · 30 November 2017

  • Solar Bones by Mike McCormack

• Tied to the Mast: Alan Hollinghurst · 19 October 2017

  • The Sparsholt Affair by Alan Hollinghurst

• Constellationality: Olga Tokarczuk · 5 October 2017

  • Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft

• Such Genteel Flaming!: ‘The Boat Rocker’ · 13 July 2017

  • The Boat Rocker by Ha Jin

• The Bloke Who Came Fifth: Grayson Perry’s Manhood · 1 June 2017

  • The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry

• Did you hear about Mrs Binh?: Viet Thanh Nguyen · 18 May 2017

  • The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

• The Pills in the Fridge: ‘Christodora’ · 30 March 2017

  • Christodora by Tim Murphy

• V-2 into Space: Michael Chabon · 2 March 2017

  • Moonglow by Michael Chabon

• Even My Hair Feels Drunk: Joy Williams · 2 February 2017

  • The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams
  • Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams

• In the Body Bag: Ian McEwan’s ‘Nutshell’ · 6 October 2016

  • Nutshell by Ian McEwan

• Chop and Burn: Annie Proulx · 28 July 2016

  • Barkskins by Annie Proulx

• The Unpronounceable: Garth Greenwell · 21 April 2016

  • What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

• Sight, Sound and Sex: Dana Spiotta · 17 March 2016

  • Innocents and Others by Dana Spiotta

• Chop, Chop, Chop: ‘Grief Is the Thing with Feathers’ · 21 January 2016

  • Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

• Room 6 at the Moonstone: Bill Clegg · 5 November 2015

  • Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg

• Sheer Cloakery: Joshua Cohen · 24 September 2015

  • Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen

• The Love Object: Anne Garréta · 30 July 2015

  • Sphinx by Anne Garréta, translated by Emma Ramadan

• A Thousand Sharp Edges: Antonio Muñoz Molina · 18 June 2015

  • In the Night of Time by Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated by Edith Grossman

• Shovelling Clouds: Fred Vargas · 23 April 2015

  • Temps glaciaires by Fred Vargas

• Micro-Shock: Kazuo Ishiguro · 5 March 2015

  • The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Ghosts in the Picture: Daniel Kehlmann · 22 January 2015

  • F by Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Carol Brown Janeway

• Diary: Dad’s Apology · 20 November 2014

• A Town Called Mørk: Per Petterson · 6 November 2014

  • I Refuse by Per Petterson, translated by Don Bartlett

• Room Theory: Joseph O’Neill · 25 September 2014

  • The Dog by Joseph O’Neill

• A Family of Acrobats: Teju Cole · 3 July 2014

  • Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole

• More Pain, Better Sentences: Satire and St Aubyn · 8 May 2014

  • Lost for Words by Edward St Aubyn
  • Books by Charlie Hill

• Reality Is Worse: Lydia Davis · 17 April 2014

  • Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis

• Diary: Not the Marrying Kind · 20 March 2014

• ‘Not I’ · 6 March 2014

• In the Egosphere: The Plot against Roth · 23 January 2014

  • Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books by Claudia Roth Pierpont

• Peroxide and Paracetamol: Alison MacLeod · 12 September 2013

  • Unexploded by Alison MacLeod

• All your walkmans fizz in tune: Eimear McBride · 8 August 2013

  • A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride

• If it’s good, stay there: ‘Ghana Must Go’ · 4 July 2013

  • Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi

• Darkness and so on and on: Kate Atkinson · 6 June 2013

  • Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

• The screams were silver: Rupert Thomson · 25 April 2013

  • Secrecy by Rupert Thomson

• Beating the Bounds: Jim Crace · 21 February 2013

  • Harvest by Jim Crace

• Speak for yourself, matey: The Uses of Camp · 22 November 2012

  • How to Be Gay by David Halperin

• ‘I worry a bit, Joanne’: ‘The Casual Vacancy’ · 25 October 2012

  • The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling

• Draw me a what’s-it cube: Ian McEwan · 13 September 2012

  • Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan

• Anti-Dad: Amis Resigns · 21 June 2012

  • Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis

• Mrs Winterson’s Daughter: Jeanette Winterson · 26 January 2012

  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

• When the Costume Comes Off: Philip Hensher · 14 April 2011

  • King of the Badgers by Philip Hensher

• Blowing over the top of a bottle of San Pellegrino: Protest Dance Pop · 15 December 2005

  • Plat du Jour by Matthew Herbert

• His Socks, His Silences · 3 October 1996

  • The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín

• Cinematically Challenged · 19 September 1996

  • The Cinema of Isolation by Martin Norden

• Homophobes and Homofibs · 30 November 1995

  • Homosexuality: A History by Colin Spencer
  • Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality by Andrew Sullivan
  • Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography by David Halperin

• Howl · 21 September 1995

  • Fullalove by Gordon Burn

• Doing It His Way · 11 May 1995

  • Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard by Timothy Mo

• Larceny · 24 March 1994

  • The Fermata by Nicholson Baker

• Tomb for Two · 10 February 1994

  • The Father by Sharon Olds
  • The Sign of Saturn by Sharon Olds

• Tweak my nipple · 25 March 1993

  • Maybe the Moon by Armistead Maupin

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