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London Literature Festival 2021: Mieko Kawakami's Heaven
Centred on the expansive theme of friendship, this year’s London Literature Festival inaugurated Japanese writer’s Mieko Kawakami’s novel...
Isabela Palancean
Feb 9, 20223 min read


London Literature Festival 2021: Creative Future Writers' Award
As part of the 2021 Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival, the organisation Creative Future hosted their annual Writers’ Award,...
Maisie Allen
Jan 24, 20225 min read


Poetry + Film Hack: Rocks and the beauty of adolescent friendship
Set in the Barbican’s Pit, viewers were immersed into an emotional and sensory experience centred around the Black femme experience,...
Maisie Allen
Dec 11, 20214 min read


My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Modern Sleeping Beauty
One book that had me in a chokehold this year was My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (her name alone is engrossing)....
Sakeena Haider
Dec 8, 20212 min read


The Limits of Freedom: Reviewing Shilpa Gupta's Sun at Night exhibition
Set in the Barbican Centre’s intimate Curve Gallery, Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta centres her first major London exhibition, Sun at...
Maisie Allen
Nov 8, 20214 min read


"Two Bodies Poured Into One": Reviewing The Vanishing Half
“Desiree and Stella, Mallard’s girls. As they grew, they no longer seemed like one body split in two, but two bodies poured into one,...
Jeanne-May Desurmont
Nov 2, 20214 min read
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