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Tom Gauld on Chaucer’s first unboxing video – cartoon
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (11+ words) Continue reading... Tom Gauld on Chaucer’s first unboxing video – cartoon...
Too hot to handle? Why it’s time for straight male authors to rediscover sex
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (289+ words) It’s a high-wire act and the risk of an embarrassing failure can weigh heavily – but that’s no reason to avoid writing about sex, argues Black Bag author Luke Kennard Are straight male writers scared of writing about sex? If you…...
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup
5+ mon, 3+ day ago (206+ words) The Guardian The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley; Night Babies by Lucie McKnight Hardy; Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell; Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker Loss Protocol by Paul McAuley (Gollancz, £22) Night…...
The Two Roberts by Damian Barr audiobook review – love and lost dreams in bohemian London
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (617+ words) This fictionalised account of the relationship between real-life artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun vividly depicts their romance and rise to fame – and the fall from grace that followedThe artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun first met in 1933 as talented…...
Poem about ‘relentlessness of the news cycle’ wins National Poetry Competition
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (707+ words) Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize A poem about language, love, and processing distressing world events has won this year’s £5,000 National Poetry Competition. The Gathering by Partridge Boswell was picked…...
The Delusions by Jenni Fagan review – an afterlife of queues and bureaucracy
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (1263+ words) A witty metaphysical satire about what happens when the processes that help souls pass on begin to failJenni Fagan’s satirical fifth novel, The Delusions, opens with an epigraph from the Kurt Vonnegut-inspired science fiction curiosity Venus on the Half-Shell by…...
Scholar, seductress, alchemist: who was the real Cleopatra?
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (516+ words) The Egyptian queen has fascinated me from childhood, but following the archives led only to ancient gossip and Roman propaganda. Fiction was the way to liberate her from misogynist myth Mine did when I was tasked by my schoolteacher to…...
‘She dared to be difficult’: How Toni Morrison shaped the way we think
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (390+ words) The Beloved author’s refusal to conform made her a hero to many – and the only black female writer to have won a Nobel prize in literature As troublesome as difficulty may have been for her professionally, Morrison genuinely delighted in…...
Poem of the week: The Secret Day by Stella Benson
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (546+ words) Writing towards the end of the first world war, the poet, novelist, journalist and suffragist Benson here dreams of a secure peace My yesterday has gone, has gone and left me tired, And now tomorrow comes and beats upon the…...
Green Dot author Madeleine Gray: ‘Chosen family is big in the queer community’
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (192+ words) Madeleine Gray has followed her hit debut with a sharp take on complicated parenting. She discusses love, sex and famous fans Were those celebrity endorsements exciting, I ask her. “I’m gay,” she replies, her enthusiasm leaping through the screen; “are…...