LITERATURE

The Post-Apocalyptic Catharsis of Jacqueline Harpman’s ‘I Who Have Never Known Men’

The state of not knowing is one of eternal limbo. To be born into a world beyond human understanding, caught delicately between a...

Contemporary Chronicling: In Conversation with Ted Hodgkinson Ahead of the London Literature Festival

“ We love words .” When preparing for my interview with Ted Hodgkinson, head of literature and spoken word at the Southbank Centre, I...

Voices of Resilience: Confronting Censorship in the Arts

The sound of Ahmed Adnan’s oud warmed the brutalist walls of the Barbican’s Cinema 1 as Comma Press presented Voices of Resilience....

It's Called 'Beloved' For A Reason: Toni Morrison's Masterpiece

Released in 1987, like a caged bird freed from the silencing of Americas Post-Colonial slave trade, Toni Morrison’s third novel ‘Beloved’...

Kitchen Confidential (Insider’s Edition): Bourdain’s Beautifully Brutal Memoir On Life Behind The Kitchen Door

I have just read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential for the first time and it’s like nothing I have read before. Perhaps a similar...

“All grownups were once children - though few of them remember it”: The Little Prince and the Absurdity of Adulthood

Last week, the King’s World Literature Society kicked off their first book club of the year with an introduction to The Little Prince ,...

More Than A Love Story: Normal People, Revisited

Although Sally Rooney’s hit novel ‘Normal People’ was released in 2018, it has had a slight renaissance in the past couple years in the...

The Feminist Book Club Back with Freya Bromley, Author of 'The Tidal Year'

Against the backdrop of a beautiful sunset on the rooftop of AllBright Mayfair — a club for women, run by women — on the 18th of April,...

‘It’s the other human beings in our lives who make us who we are’: Review of Among Others: Friendships and Encounters

Michael Frayn, esteemed playwright and novelist, reflects on a lifetime’s worth of friendships in Among Others: Friendships and...

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