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It's Called 'Beloved' For A Reason: Toni Morrison's Masterpiece
Released in 1987, like a caged bird freed from the silencing of Americas Post-Colonial slave trade, Toni Morrison’s third novel ‘Beloved’...
Lydia Bruce
Oct 3, 20242 min read


Kitchen Confidential (Insider’s Edition): Bourdain’s Beautifully Brutal Memoir On Life Behind The Kitchen Door
I have just read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential for the first time and it’s like nothing I have read before. Perhaps a similar...
Eve Williams
Oct 1, 20243 min read


“All grownups were once children - though few of them remember it”: The Little Prince and the Absurdity of Adulthood
Last week, the King’s World Literature Society kicked off their first book club of the year with an introduction to The Little Prince ,...
Faraz Rezai
Sep 29, 20243 min read


More Than A Love Story: Normal People, Revisited
Although Sally Rooney’s hit novel ‘Normal People’ was released in 2018, it has had a slight renaissance in the past couple years in the...
Almas Hayat
Aug 28, 20245 min read


The Feminist Book Club Back with Freya Bromley, Author of 'The Tidal Year'
Against the backdrop of a beautiful sunset on the rooftop of AllBright Mayfair — a club for women, run by women — on the 18th of April,...
Ayushi Goel
Jun 21, 20244 min read


‘It’s the other human beings in our lives who make us who we are’: Review of Among Others: Friendships and Encounters
Michael Frayn, esteemed playwright and novelist, reflects on a lifetime’s worth of friendships in Among Others: Friendships and...
Humaira Valera
Jun 1, 20242 min read


Until August review: Chronicle of an Infidelity Foretold
“This book doesn’t work. It must be destroyed”, wrote Gabriel García Márquez regarding Until August before leaving the manuscript...
Meri-Li Mercier
May 20, 20243 min read


Four Steps for Comprehending
[Contains Sensitive Content] by Carrie Smith First - the daze. You wake up at eleven AM, eyes dry, mouth dry, head sore. The patch of sun...
Carrie Smith
May 1, 20241 min read


Republishing of Archival Book Reinforces Preservation of Palestinian History
In a speech before the UN General Assembly in 2021, young Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd bluntly summarised the trajectory of the...
Rachel Kodysh
Apr 5, 20244 min read


Vulture Capitalism: Grace Blakeley and a Night of Re-Education
Photo by Anainah Dalal Capitalism is perhaps the most discussed phenomena in the world, whether it be by proponents of it or those that...
Anainah Dalal
Apr 4, 20244 min read
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