From its playful, quasi-scriptural title, The Gospel According to Blindboy primes readers to expect the urgent, hectoring tone of the evangelist. Readers will not be disappointed, on that score at least. Blindboy Boatclub has carved out a niche as a counter-cultural guerrilla with intellectual pretensions. As a performance artist, Blindboy has demonstrated his satirical chops online and on stage, but how well does he manage the transition to the demanding short-story genre? There are few concessions to conventional literary form but then scabrous satire was never intended to be consensual.…

Source: The Times December 10, 2017 00:03 UTC