John Barth

I’m dropping names like ee cummings scatters poems: Helen Keller, Twain, Kafka, Max Brod, Oskar Baum on disability in this week’s The TLS

'i myself am sometimes well-known, sometimes a stranger' - happy bday to Robert Walser

Today is the launch of a new exhibition trail at the Museum of Liverpool. We are here to celebrate the launch of the Disability History Trail curated by Curating for Change Fellow Iris Sirendi. Congratulations Iris! #disabilitytraillaunch Screen South Museum of Liverpool

100 years after his death, there are still new approaches to Kafka. Here's mine The Conversation theconversation.com/kafka-100-stru…

Happy birthday Octavia Butler, here with a great eg of how to back yourself

I'm looking for two PhD candidates in my new research project Wording America: How Play Shaped the United States from New Media to Politics, 1503-2028! Please share widely ❤️ universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024…

A short piece on our Glenney Max Boutin recent article on skateboarding and sound... theconversation.com/the-sound-of-s…

🎙️Yesterday the My Martin Amis podcast drew an audience of 90 people to 21Soho for the first live show of the series. It was a stonking success. Thank you to everyone who showed up, not least of all our exceptional panellists: James Marriott Sam Leith 🐝 Zoe Strimpel John

Issue 5 of the Journal of DFW Studies is here! On its way to members now. DFW Society

Battling autocorrect to deliberately misspell ‘Nietzsche’ is a nightmare, but I managed it in this week’s The TLS when remarking on Lydia Davis and disability

The West Kirby Bookshop (The West Kirby Bookshop), based on the Wirral, Merseyside, is expanding and moving to premises more than five times the size of its current shop 👇 thebookseller.com/news/the-west-…

Some good news has come this way, with more updates to follow once the front cover's been decided: Working Title by Saul Leslie: 9781917516235 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Tickets for our first fiction-focussed live podcast event are on sale now. Be quick before 16 July! Six debut novelists join Jack Aldane onstage at 21Soho to discuss the status and future of the novel. Meet fiction’s rising stars next week!👇 🎟️ tickettext.co.uk/cHPHYTmiv5

Still a few tickets left for my event with The Booking Club, Jude Cook, and a whole panel of some of the most exciting new writers come on to the scene this year. Don't miss it. Tickets here: tickettext.co.uk/cHPHYTmiv5

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 19:00 - 20:30 Free, Online Acclaimed author Philip Hoare joins us to discuss his new book, William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love.

Here's my OUP review of a few important books in Disability Studies scholarship from 2024: academic.oup.com/ywcct/advance-…

#MartinAmis's dispatch from the 1977 Tory Conference for The New Statesman "These [Young Conservatives] are not silk-hatted brayers, with the decibel-count of the natural Tory: they are of the petit bourgeoisie; they have cautious, experimental beards, gingery moustaches, bum-fluff