ANNA DANG reviews American writer Avni Doshi’s novel, Burnt Sugar, which has been shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize. There’s nothing quite like a..
Review: ‘The Secret Diary of Bloomsbury: Live!’ at the Bloomsbury Festival
ISABEL JACKSON reviews ‘The Secret Diary of Bloomsbury: Live!’ event from this year’s Bloomsbury Festival ‘It wasn’t just me. There are friends in the..
Review: Bloomsbury Festival’s ‘London Street Signs’
ANNA DANG reviews Alistair Hall’s London Street Signs event from the literary programme at this year’s Bloomsbury Festival. For those who are unfamiliar with..
ALEX HEWITT considers the relationship between masculinity, blackness, and queer identity in Brandon Taylor’s Real Life, which is shortlisted for the 2020 Booker prize. ..
MAYA WILSON AUTZEN champions Mona Eltahawy’s 2015 polemic, which challenges Arabic misogyny and calls for an urgent sexual revolution. I recently finished Mona Eltahawy’s book..
MAYA WILSON AUTZEN contemplates the sanctity of the mother-daughter relationship, and how this resonates in the literary works of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. ‘The..
DAWID AKALA reviews this year’s International Booker Prize winner, Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s remarkable yet disturbing debut novel, The Discomfort of Evening. When 28-year-old poet Marieke..
MAYA WILSON AUTZEN considers what the unconventional women in Virginia Woolf’s novels and essays can teach us about contemporary issues of gender and sexuality. Reading..
On the final leg of her literary journey, ISABELLA DOCKERY completes her trilogy, using African literature to explore the continent. Over the past few months,..
