The timing of the release of Kerry Hudson’s Lowborn couldn’t have been better, hitting the shelves just days […]
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The way I most often describe Tennessee Williams’ memoirs to people is in emphasising the feeling that Williams […]
Somewhere north of forty a woman stops being allowed to be the heroine of any story, even her […]
At the time she was writing Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso’s personal diary was eight hundred thousand words long. Never […]
Angela Carter is as much a work of fiction now as any of her novels; to use her […]
When Alison Leslie Gold was a child she operated her school’s Lost and Found, volunteering to round up […]
When I think about empathy it’s always as opposed to sympathy; sympathy is often wetter, patronising sometimes, and […]
Anneliese Mackintosh’s debut short story collection begins on an unnumbered page, obscured among the standard initial copyright & […]
Franz Kafka is the modern template for ‘tortured genius.’ He once wrote that a book should be “an […]
Robert Macfarlane must surely be a rarity; he is not only a Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge, he […]