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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...

Whether we like it or not, social media has become an integral part of our daily lives and social interactions. The technologies have...

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...

Unrest is spreading over Jidada. The Old Horse has fallen, the revolutionary government is replaced by a new self-proclaimed liberation...

BBC talk show host George Beverly and his family live a comfortable life in their London home – until the trolls and woke people on...

Our narrator first met Tracey when they were young girls nervously waiting for their first dance class to start. Their friendship did not...

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...

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...

Our Bodies, Their Battlefields is a brutal, shocking, devastating read. And it could not be any other way. Christina Lamb, co-author of I...

“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...

Grand Union is Zadie Smith’s collection of short stories, comprising eleven completely new works as well as eight stories previously...

Frank and April Wheeler’s life in the suburbs of Connecticut might look very typical to the untrained eye: two children and a charming...

Five letters that will never reach their destination, written by five unnamed people who come from an unnamed, war-torn country form the...

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...

Everyone who eats should read this book! What should we have for dinner? For omnivores like ourselves this question always causes...

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...

Last week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...