LITERATURE

Nov 5, 20243 min read

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...

Oct 20, 20245 min read

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

Oct 9, 20244 min read

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

Oct 3, 20242 min read

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

Oct 1, 20243 min read

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...

Sep 29, 20243 min read

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

Aug 28, 20245 min read

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...

Jun 21, 20244 min read

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,...

Jun 1, 20242 min read

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