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In Review: Love and Need
SPENCER HUPP on Robert Frost’s legacy and choosing the banal.
Jun 168 min read


Big Flora
PHILIPPA MONK reviews Mary Fissell’s long-overdue history of abortion.
May 106 min read


A Hotel Mindset
MADELEINE JACOB reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Jim Crow South, Palestine, and learning from the past.
Apr 196 min read


Mistaking Marx
RUTH THRUSH on the labour of reading and translating Capital.
Apr 97 min read


Re-rooting
HADASSAH WILLIAMS on Jason Allen-Paisant and (re-)relating to the land.
Apr 36 min read


Hinges, Keyholes and Card Games
OLIVIA SANDHU on A E Stallings and ‘winding up’ poems with classical allusion.
Mar 237 min read


In Review: The Ways of Paradise
JOSH ABBEY - Cornell’s phantastic metafiction, in review.
Mar 107 min read


In Review: Dream Count
SARAH MOORHOUSE - A powerhouse Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in review.
Mar 35 min read


Beyond Bare Life
MATILDA SIDEL - Women in Dark Times, in review.
Feb 257 min read


No Direction Home
Simon Alderwick reviews: AGIMAT by Romalyn Ante, Small Undetectable Thefts by Yanita Georgieva and All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath
Nov 15, 20245 min read


Paper trails of pleasure
In 2003, when she was diagnosed with cancer, Annie Ernaux found that she could not write.
Nov 4, 20247 min read


Caging Kafka
Kafka’s protagonists, both human and animal, often find themselves caged.
Nov 3, 202414 min read


HOW TO SPUR THE MOMENT
Hourani’s poetry is as meditative as it is proactive: it finds in the poet’s prerogative to organise a method of resistance.
Oct 30, 20246 min read


Sally Rooney in Captivity
COCO COTTAM - Sally Rooney’s new book wriggles under new (and old) constraints.
Oct 12, 20246 min read


In Pursuit of Nothing
Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon, had knockout feet. Few who saw them in action would deny it.
Oct 3, 20246 min read


In Review: Meg Kim, Invisible Cartographies (New Delta Review, 2024)
Kim’s debut chapbook Invisible Cartographies, published September 2024 by New Delta Review, is perhaps a collection of thundereggs.
Sep 3, 20248 min read


Pimping unfinished business: Elias Canetti's "The Book Against Death"
Elias Canetti asks if language is the barrier to understanding some kind of universal mortality.
Aug 24, 20247 min read


"Splinters": The Opposite of a Cocktail-Party
Leslie Jamison’s Splinters was released at the end of February to enormous fanfare.
Apr 5, 20247 min read


Minor Details, Major Insights
Under the sombre sky of a rainy city centre, vibrant flags in black, red, green, and white hues stood out distinctly
Mar 20, 20248 min read


Adventure in Solitude
...as she bore both a personal and reportorial witness to the labour of “dying, when one loves life so much.”
Mar 10, 20248 min read
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