Nick Holdstock

Dooneen Check out Dooneen - <p>Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that – there are no cars; there are moving fo...

You can pre-order my debut novel Dooneen on @bookshop.org here. It's my sixth debut novel. Pre-orders, as I'm sure you know, are essential to the healthy continuance of society. If you don't pre-order right now, you're basically destroying everything beautiful.

Tom Stevenson · Climbing the Ziggurat: Xi Jinping’s Inheritance China, which in the post-Cold War period was viewed as either lunch for American capital or an irredeemable dungeon, has...

Good piece by @tomstevenson.bsky.social on the Xi era that deftly unpicks some of the lazy, prejudicial thinking about the CCP that is starting to feel like it's AI generated. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Good response to Murnane's Inland (I don't think a 'review' of it is possible) www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...

Crucial - and generally totally overlooked part of this story - is *what* the journalists that Labour Together smeared were reporting on

How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise

That’s why they were targeted

A clever form makes me admit that I am all over the place

A fabulous book.

Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School From a cancelled 1896 voyage to Yokohama to the 1942 “Overcoming Modernity” symposium, Xinyi Wen traces how Warburg’s ideas travelled into twentieth century Japanese debates on modernity.

New blog post: “Modernity as Detour: Aby Warburg and the Kyoto School” by Xinyi Wen.

From Warburg’s unrealised Japan trip (1896) to Renaissance astrology in Japan’s modernity debates (1942).

warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#WarburgInstitute #IntellectualHistory #HistoryOfIdeas

BBC Radio 4 - Drama of the Week - Available now Available episodes of Drama of the Week

Forgive me banging on about this story again - but should you wish to download it, today's the last day (from link below, or Spotify, Apple, etc) - then it's only available on BBC Sounds

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Further Reductions.

Great news - The Expansion Project was the best new novel I read last year.

Some colour for this endless January. Released from a box after 25 years.

Belated congratulations!

Books - Emily Nemens Emily Nemens is the author of two novels, The Cactus League (2020), and Clutch (2026).

The multi-talented Emily Nemens has a new novel, Clutch, out in a few months. More on that here emilynemens.com/books/ and pre order here zandoprojects.com/books/clutch/

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Winterreisen, Winter Machine by Jo Lloyd A new short story by Jo Lloyd about a winter journey at Christmas, inspired by Schubert.

If all you want for Christmas is new short stories from @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social Mark Haddon and (ahem) me

Then check out The Essay on Radio 3 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week

Three stories of winter journeys inspired by Schubert's Winterreisen www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thanks!

Beauty and terror “Tell a dream, lose a reader”, goes the saying. While other people’s dreams are boring, in fiction they tend to be even worse: either meaningless chaos or

I wrote about Blinding for the TLS www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

ORPHAN dir. László Nemes (International Trailer) YouTube video by New Europe Film Sales

Sunset is a perfect film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttF-...

Pentland quarry fern fossils

The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet

A book to watch for in 2026 (have been eager to see it since reading and liking some magazine pieces by @yilingliu95.bsky.social) bookshop.org/p/books/danc... + it comes with blurbs by @karenhao.bsky.social & @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social (who refers to it as a
"masterful piece of reporting")

The Marxist Restless Analyst Andy Merrifield on David Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.

"@davidharvey.org's lifelong passion has been that of a restless analyst who continues to inspire with his heart as well as his head."

In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...

Before you can say "More pricks," read @nickholdstock.bsky.social's 2023 essay about writing PORCUPINE: www.rlf.org.uk/posts/journe...

Animalinside: A Collaboration | László Krasznahorkai, Max Neumann Withdraw into protection and safeguard all that is important to you, take it down to below the earth, all that you have, take down the jewelry, the food, the children’s photographs, the armchair…

Congratulations to László Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature today. Read an excerpt of his novella Animalinside, free from our archives:
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László Krasznahorkai, translated by George Szirtes · Story: ‘There Goes Valzer’ My name​ is Róbert Valzer and I like walking, not that I have anything to do with the famous Robert Walser, nor do I...

A little gem worth revisiting www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Hooray for Laszlo! www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

My novel about the art historian Aby Warburg’s struggle with madness, that was shortlisted for the Novel Prize, will be out next year.

www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/porc...

After Mao

'Even a book that has sold 15 million copies worldwide cannot be held responsible for the politics of how China is represented in the West.'

Nick Holdstock: The sequel to Wild Swans

After Mao When I went to live in China in 1999, three of my friends independently bought me a copy of Wild Swans and said: “You have to read this”. After its publication in 1991, Jung Chang’s book about her gra...

I wrote about the Wild Swans sequel for The TLS www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...

Inside the writing machine For some readers, a very long novel has the lure of a Himalayan peak. Scaling such a book may be a test of one’s stamina (see Middlemarch, War and Peace)

I wrote about Schattenfroh for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/literature/f...

After Mao When I went to live in China in 1999, three of my friends independently bought me a copy of Wild Swans and said: “You have to read this”. After its publication in 1991, Jung Chang’s book about her gra...

I wrote about the Wild Swans sequel for The TLS www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...

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