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Chris Power is a writer and literary critic. He is the author of the short story collection Mothers and the novel A Lonely Man (Faber & Faber).
DBC Pierre: “Novels are free spaces, just about the only ones left”
The Australian novelist on fifth novel Meanwhile in Dopamine City, surveillance capitalism and why Beowulf deserves a retrospective Goldsmiths Prize.
By Chris Power
How Chekhov invented the modern short story
The Russian writer's tales of stasis, uncertainty and irresolution determined the path of 20th-century fiction.
By Chris Power
Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School: a fascinating, sometimes messy book
In his latest novel, Lerner attempts to use 1990s America to explain Donald Trump’s US, a nation hamstrung by…
By Chris Power
Thomas Bernhard’s fiction of the meaningless
His work was powered by bile and dread, but the Austrian novelist found laughter in the dark.
By Chris Power
Amy Arnold: “Writing something so dangerous genuinely scared me”
Amy Arnold on her Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel Slip of a Fish, science and fiction, and testing the limits of her…
By Chris Power
Amy Arnold’s Slip of a Fish: an admirable, determined novel
This Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel commits itself absolutely to portraying the troubled state of mind of its protagonist.
By Chris Power
James Ellroy’s monuments to bigoted men
Ellroy is a crime writing great – but has he got too close to the ugly racism of his…
By Chris Power
The navel-gazing fictions of Gerald Murnane
His strange, self-referential novels are finally winning the 79-year-old Australian fame.
By Chris Power