Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
We are in the near future. The euro has, for reasons of simplicity, the same value it had in 2022, but everything else is exactly as it...
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Jun 1, 20233 min read
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...
May 23, 20233 min read
Spring by Ali Smith
It is May, still spring, I‘m sure, and I am ready to discuss the third instalment of Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet. This week, we have...
Nov 7, 20221 min read
The Booker Prize 2022 #11: Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
Unrest is spreading over Jidada. The Old Horse has fallen, the revolutionary government is replaced by a new self-proclaimed liberation...
Jul 5, 20222 min read
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
BBC talk show host George Beverly and his family live a comfortable life in their London home – until the trolls and woke people on...
Jun 14, 20223 min read
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Our narrator first met Tracey when they were young girls nervously waiting for their first dance class to start. Their friendship did not...
Feb 8, 20222 min read
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
It is a bitter cold winter in Ireland, 1985. We are in a small town, among good Christian citizens and meet Bill Furlong, the coal...
Oct 12, 20212 min read
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla
What does it mean to have to change your name for your classmates to be able to pronounce and remember it? How does it feel to be...
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 3, 20212 min read
Grand Union by Zadie Smith
Grand Union is Zadie Smith’s collection of short stories, comprising eleven completely new works as well as eight stories previously...
Jul 6, 20213 min read
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Frank and April Wheeler’s life in the suburbs of Connecticut might look very typical to the untrained eye: two children and a charming...
Jun 29, 20212 min read
Voices of the Lost by Hoda Barakat
Five letters that will never reach their destination, written by five unnamed people who come from an unnamed, war-torn country form the...
May 18, 20212 min read
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
The Sellout is a work of biting satire, and you best be ready for it when you open this book. Our protagonist is a young man who grew up...
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 20, 20213 min read
5 Things I Loved about To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
I have finally (!!) read To Kill a Mockingbird, after it had waited on top of my to-be-read list for years. Books with so much history...
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...
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