There’s been a lot of controversy about the casting of Jacob Elordi, a white Australian, as Heathcliffe in Emerald Fennel’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, particularly that a white man could portray a character, who although never explicitly stated to be what we in 2026 would call a racial
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My admission that Boris Vian’s L’Écume des jours (Froth on the Daydream) is my favourite book has often raised eyebrows. This 1947 novel is a classic mandatory back-to school read for French pupils, but is rarely considered a part of the adult canon. There is, indeed, something very
Orbital is Samantha Harvey’s love letter to Planet Earth. I was fortunate to begin the novel in my own orbit of sorts, on an airplane accompanying the rising sun from Singapore to London. Looking out, I felt the same strange sense of privilege that mirrored in its pages. This
Imbued with language reminiscent of vibrant flavours, golden hues, and a warm breeze, Ground Provisions tackles ancestry, culture, sensuality, and family. Shauna M. Morgan grew up in Clarendon, Jamaica, before relocating to the United States for university and becoming a celebrated academic in the realm of Africana literature. Throughout her
A harmony of rich imagery and deft periphrasis resonates in Shauna M. Morgan’s debut poetry collection Ground Provisions. The collection is split into three sections representing three eras of her life: her childhood in rural Jamaica, her young adulthood as an immigrant mother in the Southeast United States, and
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short novella revolving around loneliness, unrequited love, and dreams still resonates with our society today. The nameless narrator of White Nights, a lonely young man, meets Nastenka, a young woman with whom he forms a strong relationship, yet they promise to keep it friendly rather than romantic.
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