The Visibility Trap: Sexism, Surveillance and Social Media by Mary McGill
Whether we like it or not, social media has become an integral part of our daily lives and social interactions. The technologies have...
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Aug 9, 20222 min read
This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is one of my favourite discoveries of recent years. This is Your Mind on Plants is his most recent book, consisting of...
May 24, 20222 min read
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
Why Marx Was Right is Terry Eagleton’s attempt at making Karl Marx’s theory accessible to all and to provide socialists with some...
May 12, 20222 min read
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell
How to live? Read a lot, forget most of what you’ve read, and be slow-witted! How do you make peace with the fact of death? How do you...
Apr 12, 20225 min read
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
What can you say about a work such as this? It has been several weeks now since I read it, and I still feel lost for words. If This Is a...
Mar 23, 20222 min read
Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
First developed in the 1940s, attachment theory originally dealt with the relationship between infants and their caregivers and is one of...
Sep 28, 20213 min read
Our Bodies Their, Battlefields by Christina Lamb
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields is a brutal, shocking, devastating read. And it could not be any other way. Christina Lamb, co-author of I...
Sep 7, 20212 min read
All That Is Worth Remembering
“We may be intolerant even in advocating the cause of Toleration, and so bent on making proselytes to free-thinking as to allow no one to...
Aug 10, 20212 min read
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
The term intersectional feminism was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw to highlight how different dimensions of oppression – for example sexism...
Jul 20, 20212 min read
A Little History of Religion by Richard Holloway
In face of the recent war in Israel and Palestine (and the outbreak of sharing other people’s 240-character opinions on social media), I...
Jun 22, 20213 min read
all about love by bell hooks
Feminist writer bell hooks’ All About Love: New Visions is a passionate exploration of how we do and appeal to how we should love. What...
May 4, 20213 min read
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Everyone who eats should read this book! What should we have for dinner? For omnivores like ourselves this question always causes...
Apr 13, 20212 min read
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
What would the world look like, if we didn’t assume the worst of our fellow human beings? If collectively we had a positive, an...
Apr 6, 20212 min read
Revolting Prostitutes by Molly Smith and Juno Mac
In their powerful and eye-opening manifesto Revolting Prostitutes, Juno Mac and Molly Smith make the point for sex workers’ rights loud...
Mar 30, 20213 min read
I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman
Ah, this book! This is one that is going to stay with me for a long time. While reading it, I was already looking forward to starting it...
Mar 16, 20212 min read
Fiction and Non-Fiction by Chinua Achebe
Last week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...
Feb 9, 20212 min read
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
“This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or...
Jan 26, 20212 min read
Second Nature by Michael Pollan
“Writing and gardening, these two ways of rendering the world in rows, have a great deal in common.” Disguised as a gardening book,...
Jan 12, 20212 min read
At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell
In the Bec-da-Gaz bar, towards the end of 1932, philosopher Raymond Aron made a statement that would kickstart the development of...
Jan 2, 20214 min read
Top Reads of 2020
In 2020 I read 69 books, fiction and non-fiction and all very different. So it was of course hard to pick favourites. But here are my top...
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