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An online literary review. Est. 2011 www.review31.co.uk
"Pester has a precise ear for the frictionless formulations of contemporary organisational life that promise progress while pointing at nothing. These empty signifiers become a source of dread rather than comedy."
Robert Kiely on THE EXPANSION PROJECT
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"The internet is cooked. What began as a genuinely participatory medium ... has since become an extractive device, mining human creativity for corporate profit."
Christopher Webb on Joanna Walsh's AMATEURS!
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Thrilled to share this lovely review of my book @review31.bsky.social
24.09.2025 13:43 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"It’s in the precarious middle zone between personal rage & systemic failure that disaster nationalism mutates."
Tymek Woodham on Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism
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"The result is a book that emerges as of a spell: of preservation, but also a conjuring of memories that have been lost or deliberately forgotten."
Jemima Skala on Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night
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hello Bluesky I wrote an article about the French author, photographer, and conceptual artist Édouard Levé, who wrote a book called “Suicide” and then immediately killed himself
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“The result is a book that emerges as of a spell: of preservation, but also a conjuring of memories that have been lost or deliberately forgotten.”
In @review31.bsky.social, Jemima Skala reviews Olga Tokarczuk’s newly translated novel, “House of Day, House of Night” review31.co.uk/article/view...
Very grateful to Hugh Foley and @review31.bsky.social for this thoughtful and perceptive review of Poor Ghost!
30.08.2025 19:51 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
"Little Pink Book doesn’t just perform dandyism; it participates in what Fredric Jameson famously called pastiche: a ‘blank parody’ that imitates style without satirical intent or critical edge."
Elena Basada on Olivia Kan-Sperling's LITTLE PINK BOOK
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“‘Cautery’ follows two women, one real and one imagined, one left unnamed and one semi-forgotten to history.”
In @review31.bsky.social, Bronwyn Scott-McCharen reviews Lucía Lijtmaer’s newly translated novel, “Cautery” - review31.co.uk/article/view...
“The object of fixation becomes an instrument for self-flagellation, rather than a breathing person to know and to love.”
In @review31.bsky.social, Brynn Valentine reviews Harriet Armstrong’s debut novel, “To Rest Our Minds and Bodies” - review31.co.uk/article/view...
"Tham's simple call is radical: sex is more than 'just sex', for it is social and socially 'spoken'."
Gabrielle Sicam on Revolutionary Desires
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"The old guard of self-consciously male writers would have found only the comic, the satirical even, in such a colossus of inarticulacy as Istvan; what Szalay finds, however, is something universal."
@cosmoadair.bsky.social on David Szalay's FLESH
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"What does it mean to write for the future when the possibility of any future at all is thrown radically into doubt?"
Jon Repetti on two Attilas
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"What does it mean to write for the future when the possibility of any future at all is thrown radically into doubt?"
Jon Repetti on two Attilas
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Great to see the institution that is Review 31 on Bluesky!
15.02.2025 08:55 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Self-knowledge alone simply isn’t going to cut it; to really understand the way ‘anger drives the world’, one must look beyond the heuristic of the individual."
Tymek Woodham on Josh Cohen's All the Rage: Why Anger Drives the World (@grantamag.bsky.social)
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"Sophistry & syllogisms paint all anti-war protesters as antisemitic terrorist sympathisers. These are hackneyed but maddeningly effective strategies..."
@tadhghoey.bsky.social on Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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And lo: here we are, on Bluesky. Pls repost to spread the word!
13.02.2025 11:25 — 👍 20 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 1
"Childishness & adult language-use are persistently, & with vicious irony, switching scales: ‘pointing it up while scaling it down.’ This can induce wild laughter, but also unbearable gravity."
@jackbarron93.bsky.social on the poetry of J.H. Prynne
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"Few Anglophone film critics of the last 50 years have been as humble, curious or open-minded as Jonathan Rosenbaum."
Sam Warren Miell reviews In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: A Jonathan Rosenbaum Reader
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"A gap is emerging between poet & audience, one wrought by increasing professionalisation & the competition for tax-funded prize money which incentivises stylistic experimentation."
Joshua Abbey on Ryan Ruby's Context Collapse
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“The English soul is characterised, for Ackroyd, by a particular combination of intense spiritual mysticism & pragmatic flexibility in the realm of doctrine.”
Archie Cornish on Peter Ackroyd’’s The English Soul
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review31.co.uk/essay/view/1... my review of J. H. Prynne's latest
10.02.2025 09:58 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
