Tag: review

The Hayward Gallery's huge curation 'Kiss my Genders' attempts to unite over thirty artists from the LGBTQ+ community in a celebration of gender identity and fluidity. Charlotte Hall gathers her impressions of the exhibitions - how effective is it at breaking down stereotypes and prejudice?

"I realised I’d entirely missed the point of the franchise: it’s not about the owners, it’s about the toys." Chloe Whitehead was (unexpectedly) moved to tears by Pixar's latest offering.

"Following the traditional narrative arc of the coming-of-age tale, the film follows Stevie as he rides out the highs and lows of adolescence, and learns important life lessons along the way."

Reviewing Ottessa Moshfegh's 'My Year of Rest and Relaxation' (Jonathan Cape, 2018)

Reviewing Sayaka Murata's 'Convenience Store Woman' (Granta, 2019)

A review of Lavinia Greenlaw's 'The Built Moment' (Faber and Faber, 2019)

A review of David Sedaris' 'Calypso' (Little, Brown, 2018)

Reviewing Pat Barker’s ‘The Silence of the Girls’ (Penguin, 2018).

“Audiences deserted his lectures, Harvard students mocked his outfits, and his failures left him drunk and dejected." Reviewing Michele Mendelssohn's 'Making Oscar Wilde'.

A review of Theresa Lola’s debut poetry collection (Nine Arches Press, 2019).

'This third instalment in Smith’s quartet is perhaps the best yet; a novel for our times that asks all the right questions of the current climate, but also of itself. '

Exploring the themes of illict love, friendship and bereavement in Tessa Hadley’s 'Late in the Day'.

A review of Lidia Yuknavitch's new memoir, The Chronology of Water.

A review of Sinéad Gleeson's new memoir.