LITERATURE

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’...

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...

“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 ,...

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...

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,...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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