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..
GEORGIA GOOD reviews Ian McEwan’s new novel Britain, 1982: the Falklands War is beginning, and Thatcher is in Number Ten. It’s a futuristic 1982, with..
JAMIE SINGLETON reviews Tayari Jones’s novel, An American Marriage. In June, Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage won the Women’s Fiction Prize, snatching the prestige from..
JOE KENELM reviews the essay collection At the Pond: Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies’ Pond by Esther Freud, Margaret Drabble, and Sophie Mackintosh. ‘When I..
DANIEL LUBIN reviews Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s novel The Yogini. The Yogini is not coy about its themes. Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s novel, originally published in 2008 and now..
MIER FOO explores the obsession with beauty and the use of Ancient Greek concepts in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. The Secret History subverts the..
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