July 5th - I'll be presenting Teach Us to Sit Still, at Toppings bookshop in Bath

July 22nd - Again Teach Us to Sit Still, this time the London Review of Books Bookshop.

A new work of non-fiction, "Teach Us To Sit Still", will appear in June 2010

An essay on Per Petterson, Carl Kraus and Gerbrand Bakker will shortly be appearing in the NYRB

An essay on contemporary fiction and translation will shortly be appearing in the NYRB

"Semantic Polarities in the works of Thomas Hardy and D H Lawrence" in the Italian review Merope

"L’impasse de l’Enfant-Jésus: some remarks on Beckett’s bilingualism" in the Italian review Letteratura e Letterature.

"The Day is Coming", short story, in the first issue of Little Star, New York

"Grey Matter of Words", an essay on language, narrative and the brain, in the first issue of Little Star, New York


"The Education of 'John Coetzee'" NYRB, Feb 11, 2010

"Stop It and Act" an essay on Cesare Pavese, LRB, Feb 11, 2010

A new translation of Machiavelli's "The Prince" was published with Penguin Classics in July 2009