The fun stuff : homage to Keith Moon --
W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz --
Kazuo Ishiguro's Never let me go --
Cormac McCarthy's The road --
Beyond a boundary: Netherland as a postcolonial novel -- Wounder and wounded --
Robert Alter and the King James Bible --
Tolstoy's War and peace --
Containment: trauma and manipulation in Ian McEwan --
George Orwell's very English revolution --
Unfathomable!: (Mikhail Lermantov) --
Paul Auster's shallowness --
Reality examined to the point of madness: László Krasznahorkai -- Ismail Kadare --
English muddle: Alan Hollinghurst --
Life's white machine: Ben Lerner --
Packing my father-in-law's library.