Simon Demetriou

Writers love setting novels on academic campuses, which is fair enough since shoving together lots of neurotic people desperately searching for one kind of approval or another makes for an ...

Picking a pseudonym must be a struggle. However, one must question Nita Pronovost’s choice of Prose as her pen-surname. Because if you’re going to name yourself after your ...

It’s hard to find something to new to say about a book – or rather, a short story – that is already well known. Recitatif was first published in 1983, and has ...

I like books that don’t use speech marks. It makes sense that there should be no formal distinction between dialogue and narrative, they are both part of the same ...