This post was written by Friday guest blogger Annie Reid.
Another mid-career review of Vollman, this time in the New York Review of Books.
In Bookforum, Hazel Rowley explores what happened to Richard Wright, who seemed to face a kind of exile whether he was at home or abroad.
The December edition of the feisty Internet Review of Science Fiction is out.
In the Guardian, Alexander Masters, winner of the Guardian First Books award, talks about his friend Stuart, the homeless man who was the subject of winning book.