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Maggie Nelson & Amelia Abraham: On Freedom
Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Maggie Nelson's On Free…
4 years, 6 months ago
Lauren Elkin & Deborah Levy: No. 91/92 Notes on a Parisian Commute
In Flâneuse Lauren Elkin celebrated the woman walker in the city, revealing how aimlessly wandering through New York, Tokyo, Venice – but most of all…
4 years, 6 months ago
Carole Angier and Caroline Moorehead: Speak, Silence
W.G. Sebald was one of the most important literary figures of the bridge between the 20th and 21st centuries. Twenty years after his death, we were j…
4 years, 6 months ago
Morgan Parker and Rachel Long: Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night
In Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night, Morgan Parker bobs and weaves between humour and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn Brooks and Jay-…
4 years, 6 months ago
Claire-Louise Bennett and Sheila Heti: Checkout 19
Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut, Pond (Fitzcarraldo), has been a firm bookshop favourite since its release, for its unique, irreverent voice and attent…
4 years, 7 months ago
Owen Hatherley & Juliet Jacques: Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances
From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities …
4 years, 7 months ago
Amia Srinivasan and Alice Spawls: The Right to Sex
Building on her essay ‘Does anyone have the right to sex?’, first published in the London Review of Books in 2018, Professor of Social and Political …
4 years, 7 months ago
Lavinia Greenlaw and Joanna Pocock: Some Answers Without Questions
As a writer and as a woman Lavinia Greenlaw has spent her life being forced to answer questions that don’t really matter and not being allowed to ask…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jeanette Winterson and Victoria Turk: 12 Bytes
In twelve witty and insightful essays novelist, memoirist and all-round thinker Jeanette Winterson explores the future of artificial intelligence and…
4 years, 8 months ago
Isabel Waidner and Irenosen Okojie
With their first two novels Isabel Waidner has established themself as one of the most disruptive, vital and boundary-pushing fiction writers at work…
4 years, 8 months ago