Andrew Gallix: The attack on Rupert Murdoch is part of a tradition of patisserie activism – but shaving foam is no substitute for the real thing

Andrew Gallix’s debut novel, Loren Ipsum, is all-consuming. It has devoured modernism, postmodernism, punk and Paris, and regurgitated it all in a

‘You must choose’, Samuel Beckett wrote in his novel Molloy, ‘between the things not worth mentioning and those even less so. For if you set out to mention everything you would never be done.’ For Bec...

Just a few thoughts upon reading Tom McCarthy‘s forthcoming The Rhyl Poster.

Just a few thoughts upon reading Tom McCarthy‘s forthcoming The Rhyl Poster.

Full of word games, in-jokes and grisly murders, this debut pours gleeful scorn on the pretensions of contemporary literary life

Andrew Gallix: The limitations of mimetic storytelling ar...

This was the afterword to my non-fiction collection, Unwords (Dodo Ink, 2024):

This was the afterword to my non-fiction collection, Unwords (Dodo Ink, 2024):

‘Happiness is not a fact of this experience, at least not to the extent that one is bold enough to speak of it.’ Fiction by Don DeLillo in Granta 11.

In ‘Ward 9’, the central story of Will Self’s lauded debut collection, The Quantity Theory of Insanity (1991), it is posited that a society can only contain a finite supply of sanity, and that when it...

“Light,” he said. A single gooney drew a black curve against the stars. We watched it fly out over the water, out of our sight. “Light, yes. Aetiology in its purest form. A pathway to the past. And be...

The three novels today take on the literary world, global pandemics, and prophetic ‘fatal dinners’. Enjoy!

The three novels today take on the literary world, global pandemics, and prophetic ‘fatal dinners’. Enjoy!