My Edinburgh Book Festival event about The Casualties can now be listened to on the BBC Arts website (though possibly not for ever and ever. So if this link stops working, I apologise…)

is my favourite word in Steve Donoghue’s interesting review of The Casualties at Open Letters Monthly.

Thanks to Caroline Leavitt for doing a Q and A with me about The Casualties, which as usual made me realise all kinds of things about where the book came from. Shockingly, I even admit to having a broad streak of pessimism.

My possibly quixotic attempt to make you read William Vollmann’s incredible new book is now at the LA Review of Books.

Thanks to Writers Read for asking.

Thanks to Ian Johnson of the New York Times for the interview.

Ian Johnson writes for the NYT and NYRB on China – his work on urbanisation in China is especially well worth a look.

Thanks to Steve Nathans-Kelly for his review of The Casualties at Paste Magazine.