Soul, man: borrowed Blackness in The Commitments
It don’t matter if you’re Black or white … or does it? Talking about race in The Commitments
Literature
Literary criticism & book chat.
Literature
Literary criticism & book chat.
A novel idea | What it’s like to read a book in email instalments
Would you read a book delivered in instalments right to your inbox? I did. Here’s how it went
Tender is the Flesh: the frailty and futility of being human
In Agusta Bazterrica’s dystopian novel animals are off the menu and eating people is the norm
Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings and the colour of survival
Making sense of Sayaka Murata’s controversial, disturbing dystopic fiction
Ambiguity of existence: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? explained
Dissecting the real and fake in the book that inspired Blade Runner
The Masque of the Red Death: Poe, pandemics and the Covid connection
Poe’s gothic tale feels like a very modern horror