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…
Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters (2021)
Words by Saskia May An international bestseller, Torrey Peters’s debut novel Detransition, Baby, is rich in plot, characters and themes,…
Top Five Books on Identity
Words by Saskia May Ancient and magical is the tradition and art of storytelling. Literature can offer us explanations for…
Maternal Ambivalence and Imposter Syndrome: My experience of undergraduate, archival research
Words by Saskia May Sunshine was flickering through the green beech trees as the bus dropped me at The Keep,…
Romanticising the Real: Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love (2018)
Words by Megan Whitehead, Staff Writer If I was ever forced onto a desert island and only had one item…
Review: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
Words by Lucy Atwood If you like reading in bed, late at night then I’m Thinking of Ending Things might…
Book Review: Assembly by Natasha Brown (2021)
Words by Saskia May, Books Editor Reflecting on the colonialist, classist structure of British society, Assembly is a remarkably powerful…
Book review: 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in this Strange World – Elif Shafak
Words by Paige Braithwaite, Staff Writer TW: Sexual assault and abuse ‘10 minutes and 38 Seconds in this Strange World’(2019),…
Privilege, racism, and social satire in Kiley Reid’s Such A Fun Age (2019)
Words by Saskia May, Books Editor Kiley Reid’s debut novel, Such a Fun Age (2019) is an observant, entertaining, and…
Maternal Ambivalence in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child
Raising fascinating and current questions around motherhood and female identity, Lessing’s The Fifth Child, with its spectre of the ambivalent…
Book Review: The Vanishing Half
Words by Saskia May, Books Editor TW: Racism and violence The New York Times #1 bestseller, The Vanishing Half (2020),…
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Review
Words by Saskia May, Books Editor Published as a ‘biomythography’, Zami (1982) is Audre Lorde’s only novel. Loosely based on…
Review: The Love Letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West
Words by Saskia May ‘I am glad that our love has weathered so well’, renowned modernist writer Virginia Woolf wrote…
Metafiction-Realism and Marxist Writing in Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You?
By Molly Openshaw On the 7th September, Sally Rooney released her third and arguably most anticipated novel yet. After the…
Review - When the Lights Went Out
Words by Adam Kerry A new London airport in the Thames, referenda on EU membership, and radical zines. All sounds…
Review: Klara in the Sun
Words By Hanani Aslam Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro’s eighth novel and first book since winning the Nobel Prize…
Review - Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
Words by Oliver Mizzi When we think about Afghanistan we think of America’s long war – the forever war. We…
2021 Literary Adaptation to Look Out For
Words by Molly Openshaw & Robyn Cowie Here is a taste of the book to film/television adaptations we can expect…
Interview: Verity Spott
Verity Spott is an alumnus from the University of Sussex and a Brighton based poet about politics and social issues.…
IWD 2021: Writing as a Woman in Brighton
Brighton based writer of “One Morning, One Moment” discusses the role of gender in writing and how women are represented…