Nothing planned until February 26th when I'll be talking about translating Machiavelli at the University of Birmingham

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

An essay on JM Coetzee will shortly be appearing in the NYRB

An essay on Cesare Pavese will shortly be appearing in the LRB

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

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

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

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

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

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

"In the Kangaroo's Pouch" an essay on Geoff Dyer, NYRB, July 16, 2009.

"After the Earthquake" an essay on Ignazio Silone, LRB, July 9, 2009

"Into the Stream", short memoir on kayaking and meditation, Iota, November 2009