How to comprehend our own sexual complexities before they inevitably seep into the characters we wish to convey? How not to get it wrong? Must we confine ourselves to what ...
Sheila Armstrong in conversation about her debut story collection and the writing life
Mario Levrero’s The Luminous Novel reviewed
An urgent and essential essay on bearing up your mental health, shortcomings and all.
In her collection of essays, At Home in the New World, Maria Terrone explores the world through the lens of an Italian-American New Yorker.
This ...
A stylistically complex novel, Stubborn Archivist blends prose poetry and disjointed narratives, the result of which is a novel with a sense of urgency.
What, a friend who came to visit me asked, is a writing group?
It’s just like a barn, I said. Horses.
When you expect The Gods Will Hear Us Eventually to become a whodunnit it morphs more into a mystery and almost becomes a ghost story, but don’t let me give ...
The backdrops are real and effectively drawn but it is in charting the contours of the human condition that McNamara succeeds with skilful interpretation.
Poetry emerges; authorial identity becomes confused, drifts.
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I cannot say, hand on heart, that every single story was for me, but I can say I was never bored, never tempted to put the book down and come ...
The author who would become known internationally as Joseph Conrad was born in 1857 in northern Ukraine, a region home to a significant community of ethnic Poles.
In this book Gordon takes five women writers who battled against the social norms and takes us behind the characters they created
All the stories are of our era, this decade – social media, Amazon, portfolio purchase of residential apartments, extortionate rents, franchise coffee outlets, Sports Direct, Saint George’s Cross flags, parakeets ...
In the beginning Samuel Orr and Anna Stuart, two of the main protagonists of this novel, have nonchalant sex in Belfast. Lots of nonchalant sex. On the sly. In her ...
The beating heart of these poems is music, not least because of the poet’s own cross-genre creative output and a song’s uncanny ability to situate the reader immediately in a ...
To get to the proper understanding of the social imaginary from looking at the street, however, a number of things have to be borne in mind. The first that Accra’s ...
unless you believe that belief in evolution is an innate phenotype arising from a single or cluster of genes that can be selected for—if this were the case, then in ...
Are marriage and independence mutually exclusive? Explored through Jane Austen’s Emma and Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline.
No. That won’t work. A watch will make me think of time and time reminds me of death and death means funerals and at funerals there is always some guy standing ...
