The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025, Emrys reviews The Rest of Our Lives.
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
A review of the slowburn Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist novel, The Land in Winter.
Audition by Katie Kitamura
What is identity? Booker Prize shortlist 2025 novel, Audition, reimagines our already fragmented perspective.
Flesh by David Szalay
A review of the 2025 Booker Prize winner.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
A review of the messy but rich novel, shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.
Flashlight by Susan Choi
A review of the gut-wrenching Booker Prize 2025 Shortlist novel, Flashlight.
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon: a review
Thomas Pynchon is fed up. Shadow Ticket, his ninth novel, published more than a decade after Bleeding Edge, is less so a world in which nefarious organisations collide in an ongoing conflict, but more so a world lost. Whilst regarded as a lesser Pynchon, perhaps even in the middle of
When the buzzing stops
The case for saving insects, and ourselves
Lessons in Chemistry
Alice emphasises the power of representative role models in literature
The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
Can love survive the modern world?
2025 Nobel Prize in Literature: László Krasznahorkai
A snapshot of Hungarian author who took home the Nobel Prize in Literature this year
The New Age of Sexism
In The New Age of Sexism, feminist author Laura Bates dives into the darkest corners of the virtual world: from browsing sex robots for sale online, to visiting a German cyber brothel, to witnessing sexual assault in the metaverse. The result is a harrowing yet necessary account of how women