“How do we weather hard times? How do we prepare ourselves for the inevitable, emotional, lonely winter periods in our lives?” Vesna Curlic focuses on the questions at the heart of Katherine May’s Wintering.
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As a globally unusual year comes to an end and we enter into 2021, we consider the reading that defined each of our 2020s. In this piece, writer Sam Cohen talks about reading as refuge in 2020.
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As a globally unusual year comes to an end and we enter into 2021, we consider the reading that defined each of our 2020s. In this piece, Kiely Schuck looks back at the sixty books that kept her company in a time that didn’t go quite as planned.
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Looking at the history of authors like Mahlon T Wing, George Eliot, George Sand, and Vernon Lee, Amy Richardson delves into the troubling attitudes behind the #ReclaimHerName initiative from the Women’s Prize for Fiction that strip writers of their intents.
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Reflecting on the influence of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, Rebecca Mangra on the enchanting qualities of the novel’s language and how it works to wake the mind from the effects of writer’s block.
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