My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Modern Sleeping Beauty
One book that had me in a chokehold this year was My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (her name alone is engrossing)....
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Talia Andrea
- Dec 5, 2021
- 4 min
Friendship in Fiction: Open Book at the 2021 London Literature Festival
The second day of the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival was marked by a special episode of BBC Radio 4’s Open Book, bringing...
Majka Wankiewicz
- Dec 3, 2021
- 3 min
Common Ground: Friendships and London at the 2021 London Literature Festival
Of London, friendships and friendships with London. “Common Ground” with Caleb Azumah Nelson, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Naomi Ishiguro Image...
Maisie Allen
- Nov 8, 2021
- 4 min
The Limits of Freedom: Reviewing Shilpa Gupta's Sun at Night exhibition
Set in the Barbican Centre’s intimate Curve Gallery, Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta centres her first major London exhibition, Sun at...
Jeanne-May Desurmont
- Nov 2, 2021
- 4 min
"Two Bodies Poured Into One": Reviewing The Vanishing Half
“Desiree and Stella, Mallard’s girls. As they grew, they no longer seemed like one body split in two, but two bodies poured into one,...
Aybike Ceren Kahveci
- Oct 18, 2021
- 5 min
Three Rooms: Carving Out a Space of Your Own
Narrated by an unnamed woman of colour, Jo Hamya’s novel explores this character’s tumultuous journey into employment following her short...
Joachim Nicolodi
- Oct 15, 2021
- 6 min
An Ass for the Ages: Reviewing 'The Golden Ass'
The Golden Ass, written in second-century Rome by the philosopher and author Apuleius, is one of the earliest novels in human history. It...
Ella Mansell
- Sep 2, 2021
- 3 min
Hamilton & Me: An Actor's Journal
Theatres may be closed, and stages made quiet, but Giles Terera’s Hamilton and Me opens the curtains to uncover the back stage work,...
Elinor Potts, Edited by Grace Vickers
- Mar 15, 2020
- 5 min
An Interview with Saskia Vogel- Translating Sweden and Transformed Desires
I dial the German mobile number, take a swig of peppermint tea and wait for the call to connect. The recipient picks up, apologising...
Callistajo Saputra, Edited by Grace Vickers
- Mar 9, 2020
- 2 min
'Muses and Furies' A Night of Poetry and Feminism at The Southbank Centre
It’s a quiet and intimate night at the National Poetry Library in the usually busy Southbank Centre. Conversations about poetry and its...
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