Review

The Promise of Escape: Reviewing Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lonely Castle in the Mirror

Mizuki Tsujimura’s Lonely Castle in the Mirror follows Kokoro, a 7th grader at Yukishina No. 5 Junior High School. After having been...

Mala’s Cat Review: A Pertinent Reminder of the Violence of War

Holocaust memoirs are hard to read. Given the unfathomable brutality of this history, to hear a first-hand account of the Nazis’...

London Literature Festival 2021: Booker Prize Shortlist Readings

For the finale of the 2021 London Literature Festival and on Halloween no less, the Southbank Centre hosted an author discussion of this...

London Literature Festival 2021: Mieko Kawakami's Heaven

Centred on the expansive theme of friendship, this year’s London Literature Festival inaugurated Japanese writer’s Mieko Kawakami’s novel...

London Literature Festival 2021: Creative Future Writers' Award

As part of the 2021 Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival, the organisation Creative Future hosted their annual Writers’ Award,...

Poetry + Film Hack: Rocks and the beauty of adolescent friendship

Set in the Barbican’s Pit, viewers were immersed into an emotional and sensory experience centred around the Black femme experience,...

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)....

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...

"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,...

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