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Will Rees @williamrees0
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1 Oct 2025
Kieran Andrieu, my colleague at @novaramedia & a friend I admire, has now been kidnapped by Israel. What is happening off the coast of Gaza is illegal under international law. Share this video. A British citizen has been kidnapped @Keir_Starmer.

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Granta
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14 May 2025
‘A patient must heave their entire body into their mouth.’ Will Rees in search of a diagnosis. ‘Hypochondria’ is out now. granta.com/waiting-room-will…

Waiting Room | Will Rees | Granta

‘A patient must heave their entire body into their mouth.’ Will Rees in search of a diagnosis.

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Hypochondria reviewed in The New York Times 👀 nytimes.com/2025/03/13/books…
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Literary Hub
@lithub
12 Mar 2025
“To be a hypochondriac is to assign the most important place in one’s life to something that no one else believes is real.” @williamrees0 on Franz Kafka’s health anxiety and a writer’s calling. lithub.com/what-kafkas-hypoc…

What Kafka’s Hypochondria Reveals About His Literary and Personal Life

By the summer of 1913, it had been nearly a year since Kafka and Felice Bauer had begun corresponding, and several months since they’d started speaking of marriage. Speculatively at first, hypothet…

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Hypochondria is now out in North America. Here is an excerpt in @PioneerWorks_ Broadcast pioneer-works.netlify.app/br…

Hypochondria | Broadcast

On the phantom malady that preoccupied Kafka, Didion, Sontag, and Melville.

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In May I'll be teaching a course on essay-writing alongside Chitra Ramaswamy, with a guest appearance from Brian Dillon. Tickets and details below: arvon.org/writing-courses/co…
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Peninsula Press@PressPeninsula
7 Jan 2025
American Genius, A Comedy is a ‘captivating, strange novel’ narrated by ‘a postmodern successor to such endearingly digressive women as Winnie from Beckett’s Happy Days or Joyce’s Molly Bloom.’ 🖤 theguardian.com/books/2025/j…

American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman review – thoughts for the day

Unfolding over 24 hours, this captivating novel set inside the head of a woman consumed by her obsessions is as engrossing as it is unusual

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Peninsula Press@PressPeninsula
12 Dec 2024
In March we are publishing On Breathing by Jamieson Webster, a beautiful, expansive essay about care, dependence, and what it means to breathe in an age of environmental catastrophe peninsulapress.co.uk/product…
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Peninsula Press@PressPeninsula
11 Dec 2024
We are very pleased to announce that in February we will be publishing The Dissenters by Youssef Rakha Youssef has long been one of the most exciting contemporary writers in Arabic. We are thrilled to be bringing his English-language debut into the world peninsulapress.co.uk/product…
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Tomorrow at The Pulsion Institute, NYC Tickets pulsioninstitute.com/events/
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Peninsula Press@PressPeninsula
24 Sep 2024
We strongly endorse this letter, from hundreds of international publishers, calling on the Frankfurt Book Fair to publicly denounce and cut ties with Israel’s genocidal apartheid regime 🇵🇸
Publishers for Palestine@pubforpalestine
24 Sep 2024
Hundreds of International Publishers Demand Frankfurt Book Fair Cut Ties with Israel publishersforpalestine.org/2…
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Peninsula Press@PressPeninsula
26 Sep 2024
Happy publication day to Lynne Tillman, whose outstanding novel American Genius, A Comedy publishes today ✨✨✨
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Peninsula Press@PressPeninsula
23 Sep 2024
Lynne Tillman’s masterful novel American Genius, A Comedy publishes this week ✨To celebrate we are giving away 60 *free* limited edition risograph posters printed in Hackney and numbered by hand ✨ Stocks are extremely limited. Get yours here 👇 peninsulapress.co.uk/product…
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Peninsula Press@PressPeninsula
12 Sep 2024
In October, Lynne Tillman will be visiting Europe to mark the UK publication of American Genius, A Comedy
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Peninsula Press@PressPeninsula
11 Sep 2024
Here’s the cover for The Novices of Lerna by Ángel Bonomini, the forgotten masterpiece that ‘dazzled’ Borges🎭 Translated from the Spanish by Jordan Landsman Out November | Preorder here 👇 peninsulapress.co.uk/collect…
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Peninsula Press@PressPeninsula
21 Jun 2024
✨Coming in January 2025✨ The Visitor by Maeve Brennan, with a new introduction by Lynne Tillman
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Peninsula Press@PressPeninsula
30 May 2024
A very happy publication day to Graham Caveney, whose stunning memoir about books, love, and terminal illness publishes today 🦢 Read an excerpt in @lithub 👇 lithub.com/what-illness-can-… And order the book 👇 peninsulapress.co.uk/product…
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Peninsula Press@PressPeninsula
25 Apr 2024
The happiest of happy publication days to Eliza Barry Callahan, whose absurdly – frankly, frighteningly – good debut The Hearing Test publishes today peninsulapress.co.uk/product…
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Peninsula Press@PressPeninsula
24 Apr 2024
The Hearing Test, Eliza Barry Callahan’s stunning essayistic novel about sound, silence, and sight, is out tomorrow Available from our website, and reviewed here in the Observer by @john_self theguardian.com/books/2024/a…

The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan review – a delightful debut about deafness

A promising first novel takes a jazzy, improvised journey with a young woman who has a sudden loss of hearing

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Does anyone in London have a copy of Hervé Guibert's Mausoleum of Lovers I can borrow for a week or two? It's out of print and the nearest library with a copy is in Sweden . . .
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