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STRAND writer Jeanne May Desurmont reviews the Lan of Fashion AW22 runway showcasing up-and-coming designers at London Fashion Week 2022.

A trailblazer for the literary, film, and journalism world, Joan Didion’s passing is an immense loss. I first came across Joan Didion’s...

STRAND writer Chiara Alicia Fanconi reviews SIMONE ROCHA AW 22`s collection presented at London Fashion Week.

Centred on the expansive theme of friendship, this year’s London Literature Festival inaugurated Japanese writer’s Mieko Kawakami’s novel...

As part of the 2021 Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival, the organisation Creative Future hosted their annual Writers’ Award,...

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)....

Of London, friendships and friendships with London. “Common Ground” with Caleb Azumah Nelson, Vanessa Onwuemezi and Naomi Ishiguro Image...

“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,...

Image Credit: Claire Kilcourse Irish songwriter Orla Gartland acknowledges her musical coming-of-age journey in the early YouTube era...

Narrated by an unnamed woman of colour, Jo Hamya’s novel explores this character’s tumultuous journey into employment following her short...