A Lifetime Drama of Escape: On M. John Harrison’s “Wish I Was Here”
Roger Luckhurst reviews M. John Harrison’s “Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir.”
Roger Luckhurst is the Geoffrey Tillotson Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. His recent books include a cultural history of the corridor (Reaktion, 2019) and Gothic: An Illustrated History (Thames & Hudson/Princeton UP, 2021). His global history of the graveyard will appear in 2024.
Roger Luckhurst reviews M. John Harrison’s “Wish I Was Here: An Anti-Memoir.”
Roger Luckhurst reviews the new collection of essays “Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction” from MIT Press.
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