May 68 minCitizens Of Vanished Nations CHARLIE TAYLOR - Freedom and nostalgia in Europe's post-communist periphery.
May 47 minThe Power of the OrdinarySEAMUS PERRY - Muldoon and McCartney: Seamus Perry on the two Pauls.
Apr 2210 minThe Violence of LanguagePAIGE ALLEN - Rebecca F. Kuang on her anticolonial Oxford fantasy novel.
Apr 56 minThe View From HereISABELLA CRISPINO - Is the climate crisis ushering in a new politics of the emotions?
Apr 29 minJoycewareKATHERINE FRANCO – Modernism in a post-internet age: celebrating the centenary of Ulysses.
Mar 2810 minIn Search of Lost TimeLIAM JOHNSTON – Authentic accounts of class difference often require a complex effort to remember what has been deliberately left behind.
Jan 248 minBreathing OutKATE GREENBERG - Genre-defying writer Maggie Nelson teaches us how to be free.
Jan 79 minTrue Patriots Allby Helen Dallas Our Country's Good Timberlake Wertenbaker, 1988 The Playmaker Thomas Keneally, Hodder & Stoughton, 1987 In 1789, convicts...
Dec 31, 202110 minWould Jesus Wear a Mask?ANNA WINHAM - Diving down the rabbit hole of evangelical Youtube.
Dec 22, 202111 minWomen's WorkEMILY DYSON - If liberal and radical feminists were right that men won't save us, the state and market will not save us either.
Dec 22, 20219 minAre You Feeling Uncomfortable Yet?ELEANOR HALLESY - The Right to Sex wants to inhabit the ‘uncomfortable, unsafe politics’ of the truly inclusionary.
Oct 5, 202111 minStewards of a New AnxietyWhy do we continue to depend on 20th century language of dystopia today?
Sep 26, 202110 minBad BehaviourALEX CHASTEEN - Examining the undercurrents of female violence in Gothic fiction and domestic realism.
Sep 9, 20215 minAttending to the PresentANANYA AGUSTIN MALHOTRA - Putting minds back into bodies and keeping the body in mind
Sep 8, 20217 minWomen's Prize for Fiction 2021 Our writers review this year's novels shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
Sep 3, 20219 minPamphlets & ParadoxesGIANNI DI FALCO - Squid's debut album refuses to separate the personal and the political
Aug 20, 20219 minMending the SplitRITA MAY - Angel's latest book explores the limits of sexual consent and what it means for sex to be 'good' today.
Aug 14, 20218 minLessons in CompromiseMICHAEL ROWAND - Yaffa’s new study of Russia’s cyberwarfare finds trade-offs in Putin’s political regime.
Aug 9, 202110 minCall Him 'Dick'ANNABEL ROGERS - Taylor intertwines connection and disconnection with a sense of disgust...
Aug 9, 202111 minWhat We Aren('t)JULES DESAI - Negarestani's philosophy of negative portraiture sheds light on the Nobel Prize-Winner Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel.
Aug 5, 202111 minBorder Crossings ALEXANDRA PUGH - Both An Apartment and King Kong Theory stage various forms of border crossing...
Aug 3, 202110 minBlack Joy, Black Love, Black BeingYAGNISHSING DAWOOR - A year after the protests sparked by George Floyd's murder, Black art reclaims joy amidst violence.
Jul 31, 20216 minPre-Settled and DisenchantedANNA WEBER - A European Anglophile reflects on post-Brexit Britain
Jul 27, 20218 minNo Dog AppearsEMILY WILDER - A re-examination of the homophobic undertones in Buñuel and Dalí's 1929 film, Un Chien Andalou
Jul 11, 20218 minApprentice to the SentenceLUCY THYNNE - the dazzling new novel from Rachel Cusk marks the height of this writer's career.
Jul 5, 20219 minAnother Mode of ConcealmentNICOLE JASHAPARA — 'our definition of "literary fiction" needs to be interrogated: the marketplace should not determine what is "original"'
Jul 2, 202111 minThe Art of Literate PunctuationREBECCA ABRAMS — In praise of full-stops and their authors.
Jun 28, 20219 minA Faceless SelfKSENIA DUGAEVA — Megan Nolan's debut novel explores the realities of a toxic relationship and problematises female suffering.
Jun 25, 20219 minReal Love, Real Agency, Real FemicideANNA WEBER — Has Daphne du Maurier been Chick-Flicked?
Jun 21, 202112 minThe Small-Talk of PoetryJOSEPH TURNER — Unravelling the ephemeral everyday in Leighton, Lafarge and Dugdale's latest collections.
Jun 11, 20216 minThe Idea of OrderHENRY WOODLAND – A call for poetic disorder, via Robin Williams, Ocean Vuong, and MFA programmes.
May 30, 20218 minThe Internet is Always On LUCY THYNNE – Is it possible to write a good internet novel?
May 28, 20219 minA Frivolous Expense MATHIAS GJESDAL HAMMER – Asking whether the Amazon CEO puts his money where his mouth is.
May 26, 20217 minAt the Core of It JULIA MERICAN & HENRY WOODLAND – 'Does the falling tree make a sound if it was not livestreamed on Instagram?'
May 21, 20219 minStatuary RightsSARAH SHEARD – A discussion of the 'static ideal' of the female body in art, from Praxiteles to Hambling.
May 10, 20219 minTime to LoseTESS SOLOMON - The pandemic has exposed the ways in which time can both distort and be distorted.
May 7, 202110 minThe Uncanny Feeling of DifferenceGIANNI DE FALCO - A celebration of Black Country, New Road's self-reflexive triumph.