Wei Kai takes us through the beauty and clarity of Zadie Smith’s newest essay collection ‘Intimations’.
Tag: literature
Kae Tempest’s ‘On Connection’: A Review
Max Spokes’ personal perspective on Kae Tempest’s newest work ‘On Connection’.
The world in your head: A review of Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Lily Down reviews Flights by Olga Tokarczuk. Fluidity, immateriality and constant travelling are the main characteristics of a novel we all need to read in Covid 19 times.
Too Much Reality?!: Why technology is absent from literature
We have had mobile phones for almost fifty years, social media in some capacity for the last twenty, and the iPhone for thirteen. For most, day-to-day life is so bound together by technology that it is hard to discern the difference between the world we live in online and the one we physically inhabit. We Read More…
Love, death and Quorn: vegetarianism in literature
Tolstoy, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Franz Kafka. Some of literature’s greatest, whose meat-free diets all beg the same question: how deep can getting Greggs’ vegan sausage roll really be? As it turns out, pretty deep. Hipsters and certain brands of vegan activism may have changed their image, but plant-based diets have roots as a subversive, anti-capitalist, Read More…
Lonely Books: A Solitary Reading List
I first noticed the loneliness when the daily Zoom calls dried up and I started talking to the birds in my garden instead. I’d been lonely before, but lockdown loneliness felt different. The issue wasn’t that I didn’t have a support network, more that I did, and like all of us during the coronavirus pandemic, Read More…
Creativity in Crisis: part seven
Seventh edition of the creative writing and art project; Creativity in Crisis.
Girl, Woman, Other: the multifaceted reality of Black British womanhood
Bernadine Evaristo opens her eighth novel with a dedication that reads: “For the sisters & the sistas & the sistahs & the sistren & the women & the womxn & the wimmin & the womyn & our brethren & our bredrin & our brothers & our bruvs & our men & our mandem & the Read More…
Normal People: Simply A Classic
Me, an interviewer: “So, Mr William Self, esteemed author and journalist, what did you think of Normal People?” Mr Self, esteemed author and journalist: “I read a few pages of Sally Rooney’s book. It may say things that millennials want to hear reflected back at them, but it’s very simple stuff with no literary ambition Read More…
Historical fiction: Regenerating the psychological power of the past
Mitchell Marshall explores the importance of history and historical fiction for the understanding of our psychology and what makes us humans,