Racial Discrimination, Solitude and Identitiy - Brandon Taylor’s Real Life (2020)
Words by Paige Braithwaite “Real Life” is the debut novel by author Brandon Taylor that follows a young Black man…
Words by Paige Braithwaite “Real Life” is the debut novel by author Brandon Taylor that follows a young Black man…
Words by Saskia May An international bestseller, Torrey Peters’s debut novel Detransition, Baby, is rich in plot, characters and themes,…
Words by Saskia May Ancient and magical is the tradition and art of storytelling. Literature can offer us explanations for…
Words by Saskia May Sunshine was flickering through the green beech trees as the bus dropped me at The Keep,…
Words by Megan Whitehead, Staff Writer If I was ever forced onto a desert island and only had one item…
Words by Lucy Atwood If you like reading in bed, late at night then I’m Thinking of Ending Things might…
Words by Saskia May, Books Editor Reflecting on the colonialist, classist structure of British society, Assembly is a remarkably powerful…
Words by Paige Braithwaite, Staff Writer TW: Sexual assault and abuse ‘10 minutes and 38 Seconds in this Strange World’(2019),…
Words by Saskia May, Books Editor Kiley Reid’s debut novel, Such a Fun Age (2019) is an observant, entertaining, and…
Raising fascinating and current questions around motherhood and female identity, Lessing’s The Fifth Child, with its spectre of the ambivalent…
Words by Saskia May, Books Editor TW: Racism and violence The New York Times #1 bestseller, The Vanishing Half (2020),…
Words by Saskia May, Books Editor Published as a ‘biomythography’, Zami (1982) is Audre Lorde’s only novel. Loosely based on…
Words by Saskia May ‘I am glad that our love has weathered so well’, renowned modernist writer Virginia Woolf wrote…
By Molly Openshaw On the 7th September, Sally Rooney released her third and arguably most anticipated novel yet. After the…
Words by Adam Kerry A new London airport in the Thames, referenda on EU membership, and radical zines. All sounds…
Words By Hanani Aslam Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro’s eighth novel and first book since winning the Nobel Prize…
Words by Oliver Mizzi When we think about Afghanistan we think of America’s long war – the forever war. We…
Words by Molly Openshaw & Robyn Cowie Here is a taste of the book to film/television adaptations we can expect…
Verity Spott is an alumnus from the University of Sussex and a Brighton based poet about politics and social issues.…
Brighton based writer of “One Morning, One Moment” discusses the role of gender in writing and how women are represented…