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Review of Steph Cha’s Your House Will Pay and Brenda Stevenson’s The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins In the first months of 1992, I...

Imagine your life is overwhelmingly mundane, you are doing okay for yourself but nothing spectacular is happening and your love life is...

‘Korede, he’s dead’ ‘What?’ Every time Korede gets a call from her younger sister she knows nothing but trouble is ahead. Ayoola is young...

The Confessions of Frannie Langton centers on the titular character who is on trial at the Old Bailey in London for the murders of her...

This week; Kate Elizabeth Russell, Emily Gould, J.K. Rowling, Natasha Stagg, Lara Williams, Sara Collins, Toshikazu Kawaguchi & more

The Jetsetters opens with the Perkins family posing for a portrait—which is fitting, given that the entire book is essentially a family...

Before I begin to talk about Normal People, let me tell you my experience with Sally Rooney. There was a time when Instagram was flooded...

“Who would be interested in a story about a woman like me? It’s so typical.”

Tales of universities have provided long reading lists for modern lovers of cultish books. From Donna Tartt’s The Secret History to Hanya...

“Sing, O Goddess, of the fury of Dyann Brooks-Morriss, teller of unbearable truths. O sing of the rage that kindled one young woman’s...

We all have books we love. May it be because the story gets straight to your heart, you feel like it was written exclusively to you, you...

This week some of our writers have been reading the works of; Ruby Hamad, Amanda Eyre Ward, Kiley Reid, Celeste Barber, Cathy Park Hong &

Greatness, insignificance, history, and dystopia Would you sacrifice yourself to make William Shakespeare great or would you sacrifice...

It’s not you, it’s me, I whisper to Uncanney Valley before putting it on the “read” side of my shelf with forty pages left to go. If you,...

If there’s an author out there who can warm up the winter, it’s Elin Hilderbrand. Hilderbrand has a proclivity towards sunny, idyllic...

A Lifetime of Impossible Days is a beautiful and heart-breaking meditation on family trauma, guilt, and growing up that focuses on Willa....

At the end of 2017, following the release of Carmen Maria Machado’s story collection, My Body and Other Parties, I met her at a signing...

This week we have been reading the words of; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Cathy Park Hong, Lucy Foley, Eimear McBride, Peggy Orenstein & more.

“I knew that if she caught on fire, I would pull her close to me. I would let it come.”

The People in the Trees is a tense tightrope walk into the dark realms of moral ambiguity.

From impotence tests in medieval Europe, to testicle theft on the streets of 20th century Chicago. Your guide to A Curious History of Sex.

Featuring Caroline Kepnes, Otessa Moshfegh, Sally Rooney, John Purcell, Madeline Miller, Donna Tartt, Jeff Vandermeer and John Franzen.

There are times when a book’s love story fades because context changes. Jane Eyre may be a captivating novel centered on an intriguing...

Flowers are great, but let's be honest they only last if you're lucky a week or so. We think that these books are better than a bouquet...