‘Saving life for later’: Covid and conceptions of time
GENEVIEVE MORGAN explores our distorted perception of time in light of easing Covid restrictions, through the words of several notable writers. Right now, 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. ..
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 through Asia by immersing herself into the novels of Salman Rushdie, Jung Chang and Haruki Murakami. Since we first went into lockdown..
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..
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