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Back to SearchAndy Beckett & Melissa Benn: Can the Left Save Labour?
Throughout its history the Labour left has been a key source of energy and ideas for the party – but left-right tensions have long been the cause of …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Peter Gizzi & Anthony Joseph: Fierce Elegy
Reviewing Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy in the Guardian, Oluwaseun Olayiwola described how, ‘in its beautiful, fiery insistence, this collection redecla…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Alexander Baron’s The Lowlife
Alexander Baron’s cult classic The Lowlife, first published by Black Spring in 1963, has recently been reissued by Faber. Set in Hackney in the after…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Marina Warner & James Butler: Sanctuary
Drawing on a lifetime’s engagement with myth, literature and history as well as on her work with young refugees in Sicily in the ‘Stories in Transit’…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Samuel Fisher & Helen Charman: Migraine
’Samuel Fisher’s prose moves with swift and sure tread across the glinting particulars of locality, until that condition, that curse, with its pains …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Kim Hyesoon & Will Harris: Autobiography of Death
Kim Hyesoon is one South Korea’s foremost poets. Her groundbreaking and radically feminist poetry – ‘a transnational collision of shamanism, Modernis…
2 months ago
Nell Stevens & Olivia Laing: The Original
In The Original (Scribner), Nell Stevens’s second novel, Grace Inderwick grows up as the ward of a cold Victorian family in which the only warmth and…
2 months, 1 week ago
Liliane Lijn & Jennifer Higgie: Liquid Reflections
In 1958 the 18-year-old Liliane Lijn left New York for Paris, determined to become an artist. Her captivating memoir Liquid Reflections (Hamish Hamil…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Kathryn Scanlan & Emily LaBarge: Aug 9 – Fog
Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan (Kick the Latch, The Dominant Animal) acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy, an e…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Jeremy Atherton Lin & Diarmuid Hester: Deep House
Jeremy Atherton Lin’s Deep House (Allen Lane) is an unexpected romantic comedy haunted by centuries of gay ghosts. It’s 1996, and Jeremy, a young Ame…
3 months ago