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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (145+ words) The Guardian The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup Honey by Imani Thompson; Quite Ugly One Evening by Chris Brookmyre; The Final Chapter by CB Everett; The Hollow Boys by Tariq Ashkanani; Shrink Solves Murder by Philippa Perry Honey…...
If You Ate Lunch In Your English Teacher's Classroom, You'll Ace This AP Literature Quotes Quiz
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (515+ words) I Used An Ouija Board To Speak To Shakespeare's Ghost, And He Told Me That Only The Smartest Of The Smarty Pants Will Be Able To Get 14/17 On This AP Literature Quotes Quiz Crossing my fingers and toes while lighting…...
The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley review – the laureate of bad relationships
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (1238+ words) The Guardian The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley review – the laureate of bad relationships Riley has always skewered cruelty with shattering exactitude. What’s new in this story of two old friends in London is the delicacy she brings to moments…...
The Bed Trick by Izabella Scott review – a bizarre story of sexual duplicity
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (1101+ words) A brilliant analysis of the trial of Gayle Newland and the literary and social antecedents of ‘sex by deception’In September 2015, Gayle Newland stood trial accused of sex by deception. It was alleged that she created an online identity as a…...
Poem of the week: Winter Walk by Lynette Roberts
8+ mon, 4+ week ago (266+ words) A journey through a visionary landscape, exceptionally bright in icy weather, conjures a surreal semi-mythical world She left the hut and bright log fire at noon And walked outside on crisp white winter snow To find the iced slopes shadowed…...
Poem of the week: Missing You by Miles Burrows
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (312+ words) The moon becomes the witty image of an isolated and contemptuously neglected elderly relation Did you know the moon was so old It might have to go into a home? It keeps edging nearer The way old people do. Goya…...
Poem of the week: Now winter nights … by Thomas Campion
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (337+ words) A song to the consolations of winter is delivered with the grace and precision typical of this intellectually ambitious poet Now Winter Nights … Now winter nights enlarge The number of their hours; And clouds their storms discharge Upon the airy…...
The Transformations by Andrew Pippos review – a tender study of an ordinary man doing his best
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (892+ words) Pippos brings a quieter drama to his second novel, about a subeditor who has a midlife shakeup in the dying world of print journalismGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAndrew Pippos’s debut novel Lucky’s charmed readers with its fusion of…...
Other People’s Fun by Harriet Lane review – darkly comic tale of envy and revenge in the Insta age
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (1078+ words) The worlds of the haves and the have-nots clash, in a toxic friendship between two women brought together by a school reunionOf all the seven deadly sins, envy is the last to be commodified. You can understand why – unlike lust,…...
Poem of the week: Simile by Éireann Lorsung
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (274+ words) An elegant reflection on experience and imagination complicates a very familiar figure of speech How does a simile work? — Place something next to something and say, here. (The here is where the somethings touch.) The rainy night, like Debussy. There…...