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Tim Blanchard is a freelance writer and communications professional, mostly working with universities and their academics. He’s the author of Powysland: the Discovery of John Cowper Powys (2018) and a book on early Eighties indie music Like Magic in the Streets (2021). Being Gregory: Bill Forsyth. Gregory’s Girl. The lot (2023), is on its way.

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Of Mullahs and Magic

Tim Blanchard on Roy Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet

In the driest of desert towns, Ali Hashemi leaves his bed to say his night prayers. The young man sits in the parched garden of his family’s home, an enclosed courtyard that’s mostly a place of dust, with a pomegranate…

A Martyr to the Truth

Tim Blanchard on Henri Troyat, Tolstoy

I was back home for Christmas and convalescing from the toxic fuzz induced by months of a student existence. I lay in bed mostly trying to ignore Anna Karenina, a brick of a Penguin Classic that I had to read before rejoining the fray. A scan of the first page had been enough to convince me Tolstoy was going to be boring. No kind of style. Ordinary plot and ideas. The work of a literary oaf who handled language like a peasant feeding chickens from his bucket.

A State of Dressing-gown-ness

Tim Blanchard on Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

Oblomov, which was published in 1859, grew out of an initial sketch, Oblomov’s Dream, a portrait of life on a sleepy country estate, rustic and dilapidated in its rut of feasting and napping and storytelling. It makes some sense of Oblomov’s condition, the family history at home in Oblomovka and the way the shared love of cosy simplicity has softened his heart and his bones.

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