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From Inside Out
RONNIE ANGEL POPE - Olivia Laing delivers a refreshing selection of art, connecting the public and private.
Jul 29, 20209 min read
Waste, Value, and Use
TALLULAH GRIFFITH - On Colson Whitehead's 'The Nickel Boys' and the linking of ethnic minorities to waste products
Jul 25, 20207 min read
Rebuilding Iran
FUCHSIA HART - BBC Four's 'Art of Persia' fails to deliver the nuanced version of Iran's history that it has the chance to portray.
Jul 9, 202012 min read
A Summer Indoors: On Everydayness
JULIA SOJKA - Brach-Czaina's philosophy offers solace in the busy idleness of lockdown.
Jun 30, 20206 min read
Misrememberings
JOEL FRASER - In the culmination of Thomas Cromwell's journey, Mantel perfects our misrememberings.
Jun 21, 20208 min read
A Summer Indoors: Through the Zoom-Glass
KATHERINE FRANCO - Pirandello's Moscarda fears relinquishing himself to others' eyes, an anxiety ever-present u quarantine.
Jun 14, 20205 min read
Confronting the Academy
ELLA JOHNSON & ZEHRA MUNIR - Age-old structures come under scrutiny as #MeToo collides with the literary world
Apr 27, 20205 min read
Testing the Boundaries
EMILY WILDER - Devi writes candidly about matters most authors would not dare to.
Apr 20, 20208 min read
Sounding the Depths
BARNABY PITE - They died and suffered in their thousands, and little is left of them beyond a few black bricks on the corner of a street.
Apr 15, 20209 min read
Surface Levels
OLYA MAKAROVA - Zambreno and Moshfegh present two responses to modern life: self-absorption or dissociation.
Apr 10, 20208 min read
Middle of the Autobahn
MILO NESBITT - The point of the expression, of course, is that music is its own form, somehow untouchable.
Apr 9, 202011 min read
Faith in Ignorance
Sitting opposite Paul Muldoon at a London Review of Books event, the poet Anne Carson seemed something of a wry, bespectacled oracle.
Apr 6, 202010 min read
The Many Faces of Hindutva
These volumes offer useful insights into the presence of majoritarian nationalism in various aspects of quotidian life.
Apr 5, 20207 min read
Identity Politics
MICHAEL ANGERER - The peaceful world of medieval studies is hardly well-known for sparking Twitter wars - and yet here we are.
Apr 3, 20209 min read
Two Kid Poets
ISAAC POCKNEY - We’ve all heard about the anger in his heart, and about the fury in his fists.
Apr 2, 20209 min read
A Life Unlived
GRACE CAMPBELL - Eimear McBride's latest novel explores one woman's attempts to move beyond grief.
Mar 27, 202010 min read
The Bees and the Birds
LUKE ROBERTS - Reevaluating misguided optimism in a time of crisis.
Mar 26, 20209 min read
Material Things
JALEH BRAZELL - How does high fashion navigate the impossible task of balancing fantasy and reality?
Mar 24, 20206 min read
Artwashing the University
BEN JACOB - Delving into Oxford's dark money streams.
Mar 19, 202012 min read
Learning to Read with Coetzee
CHRISTIAN EDWARDS - In the last instalment of his trilogy, does Coetzee continue to prove his critics right?
Mar 18, 202011 min read
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