Nicholas Taylor-Collins in front of a bookshelf

Nicholas Taylor-Collins

Literary researcher | Creative reader

Tag: Jorge Luis Borges

  • Exhaustion and exhaustive: Colum McCann’s ‘Apeirogon’

    Exhaustion and exhaustive: Colum McCann’s ‘Apeirogon’

    Colum McCann’s Apeirogon (Bloomsbury, 2020) is a novel. I know this because it tells me both on the cover of the hardback edition, and in the acknowledgements. In the latter, McCann explains that this is a hybrid novel with invention at its core, a work of storytelling which, like all storytelling, weaves together elements of…