Chris Power
@chrispower.bsky.social
I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (LRB, Guardian, NY Times etc). Booker judge 2025.
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I interviewed Karl Ove Knausgård for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition
The Norwegian author on his autofictional epic, moving to London, and the psychopath at the heart of his new novel
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I interviewed Karl Ove Knausgård for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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My review of the third part of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume - one of the most exciting things happening in fiction right now observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Paperback of the week: On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
My review of the third part of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume - one of the most exciting things happening in fiction right now observer.co.uk/culture/book...
I interviewed Karl Ove Knausgård for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition
The Norwegian author on his autofictional epic, moving to London, and the psychopath at the heart of his new novel
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I interviewed Karl Ove Knausgård for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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So glad she/he/they got a credit on this
November 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
So glad she/he/they got a credit on this
So glad she/he/they got a credit on this
November 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
So glad she/he/they got a credit on this
“Are you a special agent sent here to ruin my evening and possibly my entire life?”
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
“Are you a special agent sent here to ruin my evening and possibly my entire life?”
Godrevy Lighthouse of To the Lighthouse fame (I know Woolf transplanted it to Scotland don’t @ me)
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Godrevy Lighthouse of To the Lighthouse fame (I know Woolf transplanted it to Scotland don’t @ me)
My review of the third part of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume - one of the most exciting things happening in fiction right now observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Paperback of the week: On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
My review of the third part of Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume - one of the most exciting things happening in fiction right now observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Absolutely not thank you
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Absolutely not thank you
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“Did I always understand where I was and what was happening? No. Did I care? Almost never. The power and surprise of the writing is so great that confusion rarely translates into frustration.”
Spot on review of Cǎrtǎrescu’s weird and seductive book:
Spot on review of Cǎrtǎrescu’s weird and seductive book:
Blinding: The Left Wing by Mircea Cărtărescu. An incredible Proustian, Schulzian book! Also very happy to bring the existence of Magnus Puke to a wider audience observer.co.uk/culture/book...
November 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“Did I always understand where I was and what was happening? No. Did I care? Almost never. The power and surprise of the writing is so great that confusion rarely translates into frustration.”
Spot on review of Cǎrtǎrescu’s weird and seductive book:
Spot on review of Cǎrtǎrescu’s weird and seductive book:
Blinding: The Left Wing by Mircea Cărtărescu. An incredible Proustian, Schulzian book! Also very happy to bring the existence of Magnus Puke to a wider audience observer.co.uk/culture/book...
November 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Blinding: The Left Wing by Mircea Cărtărescu. An incredible Proustian, Schulzian book! Also very happy to bring the existence of Magnus Puke to a wider audience observer.co.uk/culture/book...
I’ve always been suspicious of the neatness of some essayists’ lives, almost as if… they’re making it up. Emily LaBarge’s Dog Days refuses to plane off the rough edges of her experiences, even if that makes them ungainly and difficult to present in a book. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I’ve always been suspicious of the neatness of some essayists’ lives, almost as if… they’re making it up. Emily LaBarge’s Dog Days refuses to plane off the rough edges of her experiences, even if that makes them ungainly and difficult to present in a book. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Every Sunday I’ll be contributing a paperback column to the Observer’s New Review. Kicking things off is Driver by Mattia Filice (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), who’s poured his experience of 2 decades working on the French rail network into an extraordinary verse novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Every Sunday I’ll be contributing a paperback column to the Observer’s New Review. Kicking things off is Driver by Mattia Filice (@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social), who’s poured his experience of 2 decades working on the French rail network into an extraordinary verse novel. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
‘but it’s not what you’re supposed to do with a corpse’. Fantastic Stellan Skarsgård: www.vulture.com/article/stel...
October 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
‘but it’s not what you’re supposed to do with a corpse’. Fantastic Stellan Skarsgård: www.vulture.com/article/stel...
Loved my conversation with Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk last night. Death and the Gardener is a beautiful novel
October 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Loved my conversation with Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk last night. Death and the Gardener is a beautiful novel
Letter signed, ‘Please accept. Sincerely, Samuel Beckett.’
October 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Letter signed, ‘Please accept. Sincerely, Samuel Beckett.’
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Unsurprisingly, Keir Starmer doesn’t know the word ‘spine’
October 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Unsurprisingly, Keir Starmer doesn’t know the word ‘spine’
A morning in Deptford with Karl Ove Knausgaard, an evening in Bristol with Mariana Enríquez
October 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A morning in Deptford with Karl Ove Knausgaard, an evening in Bristol with Mariana Enríquez
Never been in a book club before; could never imagine being part of a better one than this. It’s been an amazing journey with these incredible people.
This was us last night just before going on stage the RFH to announce this year’s @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Congratulations to the authors:
This was us last night just before going on stage the RFH to announce this year’s @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Congratulations to the authors:
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Never been in a book club before; could never imagine being part of a better one than this. It’s been an amazing journey with these incredible people.
This was us last night just before going on stage the RFH to announce this year’s @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Congratulations to the authors:
This was us last night just before going on stage the RFH to announce this year’s @thebookerprizes.com shortlist. Congratulations to the authors:
‘M and I both secretly felt that it was the ways in which we had been damaged that had given us our power.’
Loved this. But Parade haters should move along. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Loved this. But Parade haters should move along. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
August 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
‘M and I both secretly felt that it was the ways in which we had been damaged that had given us our power.’
Loved this. But Parade haters should move along. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Loved this. But Parade haters should move along. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, Chris Power shares eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books ⤵️
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s
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How to read like a Booker Prize judge – according to Chris Power | The Booker Prizes
From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, here are eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books
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August 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
From finding five minutes every day to always taking notes, Chris Power shares eight ways to make more time for reading and enjoy great conversations about books ⤵️
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s
https://thebookerprizes.pulse.ly/bfnol1lf1s