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Review: ‘Cake: A Slice of History’
Red and white wines arranged on the table behind her, a display reinforced by custom-made cupcakes configured in black and white tiers on the neighbouring stall, and one thing was already clear: it...
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Review: ‘Aeneid, Book VI’
‘It seems almost miraculous to be able to publish a new work by Seamus Heaney after his passing, as if even now he were capable of offering his readers a gift…’ – Matthew Hollis, poetry editor, Faber...
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Review: Tom Stoppard on text and performance
How much “Shakespeare” is there in a Shakespeare play? A facetious question, perhaps. But it’s a question that is peculiarly specific to the theatre — how much of the author can one distinguish in a...
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Review: ‘The Mays 24’
Student writers put a heart-stopping amount of time, effort and talent into their work. Sometimes, if they’re lucky, they make it in to student anthologies. The Mays is far and away the most...
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“Just put things on the internet, for god’s sake!”: An interview with Harry...
Harry Giles is a writer, performance artist and game designer whose first poetry collection Tonguit has been shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection. leoemercer talks to them about...
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Review: ‘Hag-Seed’
Who — or what — is “Shakespeare”? By 2016, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, even the lesser known plays such as Cymbeline have been subject to multiple revisions, resettings, and...
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The Unfinished Palazzo: An Interview with Judith Mackrell
Judith Mackrell is the Guardian’s dance critic and author of ‘The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice’. The book tells the story of three women — Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy...
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The Long View: Reconsidering the Confessions
I hesitate before I answer one particular question that I am regularly asked: what do you write? I write memoir. My reticence is indirectly related to the idea that memoir ranks quite low in the...
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Review: ‘Borrowed Time’
From a career perspective, the middle initial is the would-be sci-fi writer’s greatest asset. Especially if you also hope to maintain a career in the Literary Sphere, a good middle initial can...
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Review: ‘This Is The End Of The Story’
‘Narrative cannot order experience, but only register something about the quality of experience.’ A tale of multi-layered, multi-faceted maturation, Jan Fortune’s This Is The End Of The Story...
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