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,..
JEAN WATT explores the performance of reading and social aspirations to appear ‘well-read’. I am one book behind schedule on my 2020 Goodreads Reading Challenge...
IZZY DOCKERY travels across Europe by exploring the novels of E.M. Forster, Sally Rooney and Nikolai Leskov. Since embarking on my previous literary excursion, the..
IZZY DOCKERY travels through Asia by immersing herself into the novels of Salman Rushdie, Jung Chang and Haruki Murakami. Since we first went into lockdown..
DAVID LEE ASTLEY considers Gordon Burn’s scintillating true-crime classics, Somebody’s Husband, Somebody’s Son and Happy Like Murderers. Gordon Burn is best known for his penetrating studies of Peter..
DAVID LEE ASTLEY reflects on deadly obsession and celebrity culture in relation to Gordon Burn’s Alma Cogan On the 15th February 2020, Caroline Flack’s body was..
SHANTI GIOVANNETTI-SINGH explores the transformative power of literature in times of quarantine. On Monday 23rd March, Boris Johnson announced a UK lockdown in the attempt..
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