To encounter Virginia Woolf and Chantal Akerman is to be plunged into worlds where women who are mothers are watched by women who are daughters. But centering motherhood in their works is... Read more »
Irvine Welsh, author I’ve been enjoying Contrapposto by Dave Eggers. The premise that love and art are the only things that make life worthwhile pulses beautifully through this novel and its two... Read more »
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Max Porter, writer I recently read Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot. It’s one of the best novels I’ve ever read about what it means to live with others, or decide not to;... Read more »
“There’s the gush of water through the pipes when he fills a kettle,” observes Tara Selter on the 18th of November. “The sound of metal on metal when he sets the kettle... Read more »
My earliest reading memoryThe summer my middle sister was born, my mum and I would walk to the shops at Cherryvalley, in east Belfast, to do her messages, and she’d buy me the latest issue of... Read more »
From celebrity book clubs to the revival of the edgy literary party, being a book lover is in. Dior has launched new versions of their Book Tote emblazoned with the covers of... Read more »
The National Year of Reading should be extended to a National Decade of Reading, an education committee inquiry into reading for pleasure has concluded. The government should also commit to a National... Read more »