How to be a better reader
Want to read more this year? Here are four ways to flex your reading muscle.
The Body Snatchers is a study in paranoia
Published in 1955, Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers captures a community – and country – gripped by fear and mistrust.
4 lessons for writers in The World According to Garp
John Irving’s novel, The World According to Garp, is about a writer. As such, it contains and reflects the reality of writing for a living.
The Stepford Wives nailed ‘feminist dystopia’ a decade before The Handmaid’s Tale
In The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin imagines a creepy, claustrophobic world in which women are man-made, and feminism doesn’t exist.
Feel like you don’t belong? Here are 6 books you can relate to
Literature loves a misfit. Here are 6 books which explore themes of isolation, alienation, fitting in – and doing your own thing.
The Handmaid’s Tale: fascism and feminism
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale doesn’t just preach feminism – it inspects it, calls out its failings, and shows how gender politics keep us all in line.