BOOKS
An extract from City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes, and its People by Jessica Wärnberg.
How It Started… How It's Going. Alexander Larman writes his way into a trilogy about the Windsor family.
On the sanctity of Britain’s blue plaque scheme—and the delightful hoaxes it inspires.
A bibliophile confesses.
UPDATED DAILY from December 1 through to December 24, Emigre writers on the books they would be happy to receive for Christmas.
A near miss on honeymoon in Sri Lanka.
An extract from Remember Me by Charity Norman, winner of the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Novel.
Upon thorough exagmination, a complete list of the misprints in my Finnegans Wake.
How Shehan Karunatilaka’s Chats with the Dead became Booker Prize winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
An extract from Jack Grimwood’s forthcoming thriller, Arctic Sun—out this month from Penguin Michael Joseph.
An extract from James Morrison’s new novel Gibbons, or One Bloody Thing After Another.
The modern-day conflict of Arab and Jew looks depressingly similar to the old modern-day conflict of Arab and Jew.
For World Albatross Day, The Emigre reports from somewhere towards the South Pole…
Martin Amis was someone I thought of as a kind of elder sibling, hero, avatar, even scapegoat.
Eric Stroud whiles away a long weekend with the audiobook of Ian Fleming’s third novel—and live-tweets his increasingly-bemused reactions.
An extract from Yudhanjaya Wijeratne’s email novel about a Kafkaesque, near-future Sri Lanka, and about the stupidity of it all.
“That was a three-legged greyhound!” Claire exclaims. Novelist Howard Male is dogged by another barking coincidence.
On publication day for his fourth/final book in the KUU series, Howard Male takes us right back to the beginning with an extract from his novel Etc Etc Amen.
Entertain the possibility and the possibility will entertain you, says the Emigre’s KUUru, Howard Male.