Books
Bust?: Saving the Economy, Democracy and our Sanity by Robert Peston and Kishan Koria- Review
"So long as we have an economic system geared towards the accumulation of wealth rather than the acquisition of it, inequalities will continue to widen"
Book recommendations from the editors’ desk
"It’s rare that I find non-fiction to be such a page-turner, but Tara Westover’s autobiography was just that."
Greg Heffley: A Hero of Our Time
Few modern comic heroes align with our distinctive age – an age which Dickens’s...
The man of the moment: Review of Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin
"Baldwin does his best to humanise Starmer and to deflate the view of him as “Mr Boring”."
Review: Chaucer Here and Now, Weston Library
"Mansplaining scribes, scandalised censors, and unfinished endings. Even from day one, there is no stable and single Chaucer."
Rock’s best storyteller
"Darnielle's new novel confirms the status that Rolling Stone granted him; Rock's best storyteller", writes Barney Pite.
House of Fear and the reinvention of fairytale
Libby Cherry writes about the feminist undertones to Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet
Nancy Drew – feminist icon or tired corporate creation?
Ellie Duncan explores whether the children's detective series Nancy Drew is progressive or not
Not Forgetting William Hazlitt
Despite critical acclaim, William Hazlitt is now scarcely read.
Turtles All The Way Down review: messy, clichéd, and pretentious
John Green’s latest novel is a messy, sprawling cliché, writes Barney Pite
Angel Hill review – ‘It may be simple, but it isn’t empty’
Michael Longley’s Forward Prize short-listed collection is elegant and timeless, writes Barney Pite
An improbable journey to the East
Sam Dalrymple reflects on mundanity and self-discovery in Bouvier’s The Way of the World
Reconsidering the Lobster: Wallace’s Dostoyevsky
David Foster Wallace cuts to the core of what makes Dostoyevsky invaluable, writes Barney Pite.
Project 1917: The revolution will be tweeted
The historical Project 1917 is bringing new life to the Russian Revolution, writes Lucy Enderby
Assassination attempts amid the violence that tore Kingston apart
The first book written by a Jamaican to win the Man Booker Prize is an epic in the truest sense of the word, writes Jacob Cheli
Exploring the poetry of the everyday world
Quiet, mysterious Haruki Murakami fuses local culture with global emotions, writes Lucy Enderby
Alain de Botton: “The university system is failing people”
Author Alain de Botton, founder of the School of Life, talks philosophy, mental health and the education system
Meet Woolf’s doll house inspiration
A miniaturised book which inspired Woolf's Orlando is to be published
In this fractured world, does empathy really hold us all together?
Against Empathy is a compelling and relevant reevaluation of compassion