Forbidden Notebooks: A Woman’s Right to Write
Alba de Céspedes pictured in the Italian magazine Epoca, vol. VII, no. 86, Ma...
Books
Does It Have to Be That Way?: A Conversation with El...
Elif Batuman in 2019. Photo: Valentyn Kuzan. In September 1852, when he was t...
Cooking with Intizar Husain
Photo by Erica Maclean. The novel Basti by Intizar Husain begins with childre...
Jessamine Chan’s gripping debut novel sends up moder...
The School for Good Mothers. By Jessamine Chan. Simon & Schuster; 336 pages; ...
Dominant languages can spread even without coercion
NEVER THINK the world is in decline. A recent book, “Speak Not” by James Grif...
The “Scream” franchise adds another self-referential...
The fifth film in the “Scream” series has a counter-intuitive title: “Scream”...
Lil B Death-Ritual Potlatch: A Week in Austin, Texas
Day One Productivity experts say that people shouldn’t sleep in the same are...
New Literary History of Australia (1988), edited by ...
Cultural warning: this post contains the names of First Nations authors who ...
Doreen, by Barbara Noble
I discovered this absorbing short novel via the Backlisted Podcast. At the st...
Shopping Diary
Camille à la ville paper dolls. Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CCO 2.0. Se...
Bake, by Paul Hollywood
I wasted no time in experimenting with this cookbook! Paul Hollywood’s Bake, ...
Salonika Burning, by Gail Jones
Gail Jones ninth novel is an interesting addition to Australia’s literature o...
The Last Furriers
Still from unreleased film courtesy Ann Manov. One of Werner Herzog’s lesser ...
Remembering Rebecca
Rebecca Godfrey photographed by Brigitte Lacombe, NYC, 2002. I met Rebecca Go...
Cannon Fire, by Michael Cannon
Although we’ve got a 1966 first edition of Michael Cannon’s first book The L...
Kickoff: The World Cup
Qatar Airways. Wikimedia Commons, LIcensed under CC0 4.0. The World Cup kicks...
Education
Don’t Forget to Breathe
By James Prescott-Kerr When you’re abroad and know you have limited time in ...
