I rcviewed two books about precarious jobs in China for The TLS.

https://www.the-tls.com/lives/biography/adrift-in-the-south-xiao-hai-book-review-nick-holdstock

In order to stoke the fires of readerly anticipation until they are white-hot, here’s an interview I did with Curtis Smith about the novel which comes out December 1st.

You can preorder for both the US and UK on Amazon and Bookshop.org or better still, ask your local bookstore to order it.

I am amazed, and very grateful to have endorsements from such talented writers.

In advance of my short review of Vollmann’s long, long, long new book, here is a long review of Vollmann’s long, long book The Dying Grass and the Seven Dreams series

I wrote about war correspondents for The Dial.

https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/war-correspondent-memoirs

I wrote about John Berger AND SEX for the TLS

https://www.the-tls.com/literature-by-region/british-literature/g-john-berger-book-review-nick-holdstock

Time to excavate another charming corpse from my graveyard of reviews.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-210912044

Contrary to Schopenhauer’s parable, these proofs of my forthcoming novel seem content with each other’s company (for now).

My piece on Szabo’s Katalin Street can now be read here

My essay on Imagined Utopias in Pynchon’s work can be read here.

My review of Colin Thubron’s The Amur River can now be read here

There’s an updated version of the photo essay I wrote for Unmapped – another sadly defunct publication – up on my Substack .https://nickholdstock.substack.com/p/the-death-of-old-kashgar

“If there can be said to be such a thing as a typical Krzhizhanovsky story – this is, after all, a person who wrote stories in which the Eiffel Tower tries to join the Soviet cause, a man gets lost in a tiny room, and a toad from the River Styx bemoans the lack of exclusivity in the underworld – it would be “Someone Else’s Theme” in which a dishevelled man offers a stranger an entire philosophical system in exchange for dinner.”

For more click here

I have resurreted my VICE piece on the Kyrgyz clinic treating heroin addiction by inducing comas on my Substack. The clinic is still open for business.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-206710645

Introduction to this now on Substack

https://nickholdstock.substack.com/p/w-or-the-memory-of-childhood-by-georges

Now up on substack

https://nickholdstock.substack.com/p/too-much-of-life-by-clarice-lispector

At the risk of jumping on a bandwagon that has pulled over to the curb, I have started a Substack where I will do what is expected of me. First up is a piece I wrote for the Dublin Review more than a decade ago about online dating in Kyrgyzstan. I am sure that will have aged well! https://tinyurl.com/mbze39az

You can be first to pre-order Porcupine from Asterism, a site that is much kinder on publishers than the usual deathstars, though it is of course your right to offer them your patronage. More on them and pre-ordering from elsewhere soon to follow…

https://asterismbooks.com/product/porcupine-nick-holdstock

I wrote about the great M John Harrison for The TLS.

https://www.the-tls.com/literature/fiction/the-course-of-the-heart-m-john-harrison-book-review-nick-holdstock

It gets out in December.

I wrote about the Chinese Internet for the TLS

Ring of fire

My novel about the art historian Aby Warburg’s struggle with madness, that was shortlisted for the Novel Prize, will be out next year.

https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/porcupine/

I wrote about this behemoth of a novel for the TLS.

I wrote about the sequel to Wild Swans for the TLS

I have a new piece in the latest issue of the Dublin Review.

Here’s my story from Banshee Issue 7. You can still buy copies of issue 12, which also features a story by me.

UCHANGE

I am thrilled to have been shortlisted for the Prize.

https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/prizes/the-fitzcarraldo-editions-novel-prize/the-novel-prize-entry-requirements/

I have a new story in the latest issue of Exacting Clam.

https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-14-autumn-2024/partial-object/

I wrote about Antoine Volodine’s Mevlido’s Dreams and Sergei Lebedev’s A Present Past for the TLS.