This review was originally published on The Indiependent Trigger warning: rape, assault Let’s play a word association game, shall we. If I say ‘model’, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Perhaps you think of a tall, leggy Victoria’s secret model. Maybe you think of transgender model Munroe Bergdorf and her racism row with L’Oreal. … Continue reading Book Review: Boy Parts // Eliza Clark
Taylor Swift’s new album folklore is about the invisible strings that that tie us together and the stories that make us who we are today. There are two things that the Covid-19 pandemic has given us this summer: lots more time inside to curl up with a book, and ample opportunity to reflect on the ghosts of girlfriends … Continue reading Album Review: folklore // Taylor Swift
I really tried to avoid the never ending stream of tweets on my timeline obsessing about Conversations With Friends. I already fell victim to the online chatter about the profundity of Anna Burns’ 2018 Man Booker Prize winning novel, Milkman. The prose was so dense it was like trying to read treacle, and I gave up a mere … Continue reading Book Review: Conversations With Friends // Sally Rooney
Title: Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life Author: Nina Stibbe What I think so far: In 1982, Nina Stibbe moved from Leicester to London to become nanny to Mary-Kay Wilmers’s children. Working (somewhat informally, it has to be said) for the editor of the London Review of Books clearly gave this book’s twenty year old subject an invaluable … Continue reading Book By My Bedside: Love, Nina // Nina Stibbe
BETH KIRKBRIDE 