Review | Break.up by Joanna Walsh
The online world often seems clean and seamless; it doesn’t have any scars to reveal its traumas or accidents. Bodies,…
Review | Nowhere Nearer by Alice Miller
Jack Solloway Nowhere nearer Nowhere Nearer, Alice Miller, Pavilion Poetry, 61pp, 2018, £9.99 (paperback) ‘We are no longer quite here…
Review | Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up and Dorothea Lange: The Politics of Seeing
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, Victoria & Albert Museum, Circe Henestrosa & Claire Wilcox, until November 4th 2018 Dorothea…
Review | Daido Moriyama: SCENE at Hamilton’s Gallery
Some of the silk-screen photographs at Daido Moriyama’s exhibition at Hamilton’s gallery depict wide shots of the bustling Tokyo street,…
Poetry | Synopsis and The Wedding Frame by Hugo Williams
Synopsis People are taking sedatives in boats Going to America. Their names drift back to me— Hollowed out, unpronounceable. I…
Essay | The Commune of the City by Ian Stone
On 28 October 1272 King Henry III (1216-72) lay dying at Westminster Palace. His eldest son, Edward, returning from crusade,…
Review | Berenice Sydney: Dancing with Colour at Saatchi Gallery
SALON, Saatchi Gallery’s project space at its Duke of York’s HQ, is currently showing Dancing With Colour, a presentation of…
Review | Feel Free by Nick Laird
Nick Laird’s new poetry collection, Feel Free, shares a title with his wife Zadie Smith’s January-released essay collection, and while…
Poetry | Poem by Kyriakos Frangoulis
The moon is a sealed coffin A boast The moon of poets The moon of dogs The moon of ovaries…
Review | A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Wilton’s Music Hall
Sitting in Wilton’s Music Hall on a sticky summer evening during a heatwave, it is not hard to find yourself…
Review | Florida by Lauren Groff
A recurring character binds the eleven stories in Lauren Groff’s Florida. Sometimes she is narrator and protagonist. Some of the…
Fiction | A Third Presence by Nadine Gordimer
When Rose and Naomi, daughters of poor Rasovsky the tailor, left school in the same year there was no discussion…
Poetry | A Letter from Brooklyn by Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott A Letter from Brooklyn An old lady writes me in a spidery style, Each character trembling, and I…
Interview | Lucy Pearson, The Literary Edit
Lucy Pearson runs The Literary Edit book blog and @the_litedit on Instagram. She has over 11,000 followers and has been…
Review | A Dark and Stormy Night by Tom Stacey
In this new novel by Tom Stacey, our narrator, the Anglican priest Simon Chance, is lost. Lost in his thoughts,…
Review | The New Generation of ‘Instagram Poets’ And Their Fierce, Revolutionary Voices
In November 2014, a courageous 21 year-old woman self-published her first collection of poetry. The arresting poems that filled the…
Poetry | The Sleepers by Sylvia Plath
No map traces the street Where those two sleepers are. We have lost track of it. They lie…
Interview | Jude Christian – Nanjing at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
We stopped by The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe to talk to Jude Christian about her play Nanjing. Nanjing is part…
Fiction | Alone with the Tide by John Saul
At last. Dismissing all fiction, I come clean. The figure coming into focus, in that smart black and grey coat,…
Essay | Meg Wolitzer’s #MeToo Moment by Sophie Perryer
Meg Wolitzer must be psychic. Well before the explosive allegations against Harvey Weinstein were revealed and the #MeToo movement gathered…
Review | Fragmented Dialogues – Art and Identity in 1980s Chile
Fragmented Dialogues: Mario Fonseca & Mauricio Valenzuela, Art & Identity in 1980s Chile is currently on display at the Austin…
Review | The Pleasures of Queuing by Erik Martiny
Erik Martiny The Pleasures of Queueing Mastodon Publishing 2018 ISBN 978-1-7320091-1-0 In chapter 13 of his very funny and entirely absorbing…
Interview | Sophie Collins, Mark Ford and Les Robinson
We had a quick chat with the judges of our 2018 Poetry Prize – Sophie Collins, Mark Ford and Les…
Essay | Peas by Alice Dunn
One of the stand-out gardens at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show appeared to replicate the pea in its structure.…
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