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Deborah Levy & Stephen Grosz: August Blue
Novelist, essayist and playwright Deborah Levy read from and spoke about her novel August Blue, a mesmerising story of how identities, coalesce, coll…
2 years, 9 months ago
Devorah Baum & Hisham Matar: ‘On Marriage’
Marriage has been an institution for centuries but why this highly contested and ancient practice has remained relevant to so many is by no means cer…
2 years, 9 months ago
Lynne Tillman & Michael Bracewell: Mothercare
When novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman’s mother became ill with the rare condition of normal pressure hydrocephalus she became entirely depe…
2 years, 9 months ago
Claudia Rankine & Nicola Rollock: Plot
Claudia Rankine’s Plot, an early work published for the first time in the UK this month, is a meditation on pregnancy and the changes it heralds: the…
2 years, 10 months ago
Amy Key & Megan Nolan: Arrangements in Blue
Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - which shaped Amy Key's expectations of love - as an anchor, Arrangements in Blue elegantly honours a life …
2 years, 10 months ago
Polly Barton & Amelia Abraham: Porn An Oral History
A landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn, Porn: An Oral History (Fitzcarraldo Editions) is a thrilling, thought-provoking, …
2 years, 10 months ago
Christopher Clark & Katja Hoyer: Revolutionary Spring
In Revolutionary Spring (Allen Lane), a series of brilliant set-pieces, pre-eminent European historian Christopher Clark brings back to our attention…
2 years, 10 months ago
Nicole Flattery & Claire-Louise Bennett: Nothing Special
New York in the late 1960s: Mae escapes a run-down an apartment, an alcoholic mother and her mother’s occasional boyfriend to a new life as a typist …
2 years, 11 months ago
Brenda Shaughnessy & Amy Key: Liquid Flesh
Brenda Shaughnessy’s Liquid Flesh (Bloodaxe) gathers together poems from across her first five collections, as thrilling and unpredictable as any con…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ruth Padell and Sean Borodale: Watershed
In Ruth Padel’s latest pamphlet, Watershed, the poet reflects on the natural world, on water, and on the psychology of denialism, particularly where …
2 years, 11 months ago