PHILIPPA MONK reviews Mary Fissell’s long-overdue history of abortion.

MADELEINE JACOB reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Jim Crow South, Palestine, and learning from the past.

RUTH THRUSH on the labour of reading and translating Capital.

HADASSAH WILLIAMS on Jason Allen-Paisant and (re-)relating to the land.

OLIVIA SANDHU on A E Stallings and ‘winding up’ poems with classical allusion.

JOSH ABBEY - Cornell’s phantastic metafiction, in review.

SARAH MOORHOUSE - A powerhouse Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in review.

MATILDA SIDEL - Women in Dark Times, in review.

Simon Alderwick reviews: AGIMAT by Romalyn Ante, Small Undetectable Thefts by Yanita Georgieva and All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath

In 2003, when she was diagnosed with cancer, Annie Ernaux found that she could not write.