Chris Power
@chris_power
Wrote A Lonely Man & Mothers; words in @LRB @guardian @thetimesbooks; presents Open Book on @BBCRadio4; agent Emma Paterson @AitkenAlexander
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'Kafka seems both genius and ingenue, and the contradiction brings him closer to us.'
Chris Power on Kafka, Lily Meyer on Neel Mukherjee, Padgett Powell on Paul Auster, leigh haber on Claire Messud, and Alexis Coe on Erik Larson
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for the latest edition of Literary Review I worked on some excellent pieces – Morten Høi Jensen on Kafka
ella fox-martens 🛸 on Honor Levy (Honor Levy)
Rhodri Lewis on Shakespeare novels
Ed Cumming on Kaliane Bradley
zoe g on National Theatre's Dickens show
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'The brilliance of the story is to allow both things to be simultaneously true.' --Chris Power signature clarity brought to bear on a restored edition of Kafka's diaries, tr Ross Benjamin. theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…
Please share widely - the second year of the Martha Mills Young Writers’ Prize. We’re thrilled to have the wonderful Philip Pullman as a judge - Martha was such a fan of his books
for the new(ish) April issue of Literary Review I commissioned a number of pieces, including Deborah Levy on Bowie, Rosa Lyster on creative non-fiction, Jon Savage on Pulp, mike harrison on Oyamada, Richard Williams on Kind of Blue, Chris Power on HGarner
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“Our children are dying, we are dying. What are you doing, where is the world?”
Amid starvation and desperation in Gaza, Jomana Karadsheh Scott reports on the deaths of 12 people as they attempted to reach aid dropped into the sea.
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In June I’ll be talking to Rachel Cusk at an Intelligence Squared event in London about her extraordinary and devastating novel Parade. Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/rachel-cusk-…