Leo Robson

Nov 26, 2024 | waterstones.com | Leo Robson

Hardback 304 Pages Published: 08/05/2025 Awaiting publication Quantity This item has been added to your basket 'Compelling, vibrant, and dazzling' Brandon Taylor, Booker shortlisted author of Real Life 'Very human, very real but also, fundamentally, extremely fun to read' Rebecca Watson, author of Little Scratch 'There's something delightful on every page' Lauren Oyler, author of Fake Account London, 2012. Johnny Voghel is stuck. He has a dead-end job at a small university and a wilting...

Nov 12, 2024 | ojoentinta.com | Leo Robson

La sexta novela de Joshua Cohen, "Los Netanyahus" (Seix Barral, 2024), ganadora del Premio Pulitzer el 2022, está inspirada por una anécdota de Harold Bloom y es una fantasía satírica en torno a la familia Netanyahu, que introduce preguntas serias. En una entrevista con el crítico Leo Robson, Cohen se refiere a estas y otras cuestiones. Hace unos meses, me encontré con el novelista y ensayista estadounidense Joshua Cohen. Él estaba saliendo de un período muy ajetreado.

Nov 10, 2024 | msn.com | Leo Robson

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Nov 10, 2024 | theguardian.com | Leo Robson

The writer Paul Bailey, who has died aged 87, believed in ignoring surfaces or trying to see past them – to identify what was special about the ordinary and overlooked, and what was recognisable and understandable in the unfamiliar. His first career was in acting, and he always aimed to escape narrow egoism. Like the hero of his wonderfully entertaining novel Peter Smart’s Confessions (1977), Bailey “hated self-display” and was a “keen observer of it in others”.

Oct 29, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Leo Robson

Writing about English landscape painting in the New Statesman in 1975, the novelist, biographer, memoirist, poet and critic Paul Bailey, who has died aged 87, alighted on Geoffrey Grigson’s category of “freaks.” These were the artists, not much noted in conventional histories, who established their vision, discovered it was against the market, and “stuck to it never the less.” In Bailey’s own experience, there was no moment of ‘discovery’.