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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...
Isabela Palancean
Feb 9, 20223 min read


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,...
Maisie Allen
Jan 24, 20225 min read


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)....
Sakeena Haider
Dec 8, 20212 min read


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...
Talia Andrea
Dec 5, 20214 min read


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...
Majka Wankiewicz
Dec 3, 20213 min read


"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,...
Jeanne-May Desurmont
Nov 2, 20214 min read


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...
Aybike Ceren Kahveci
Oct 18, 20215 min read


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...
Joachim Nicolodi
Oct 15, 20216 min read


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,...
Ella Mansell
Sep 2, 20213 min read


Kushwant Singh: The Voice of a Silenced Generation
Acting as a voice for a nation of the agonised and silenced, the Kushwant Singh Literary Festival (KSLF) showcased the illuminating...
Shreya Sharma
Jun 11, 20195 min read
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