Beautiful Strange – Chrissy Williams’ Flying Into the Bear
It’s just easier to think in shorthand. Certain brands – political, commercial, or artistic, trigger knee-jerk reactions of love, or …
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The Real Thing – Booksellers, not retail sales assistants
Today’s Guardian reports that Amazon Marketplace is hiking its fees up for third-party traders. In a piece published in the same …
And God Created Woman – Stephanie Leal’s Metrophobia
As the Authorized Version of the Bible came off the press in 1611, the poet, Aemilia Lanyer, was not prepared …
The whole of the moon – Where Rockets Burn Through, edited by Russell Jones
In the days when video games were packaged in cassette boxes, their lurid covers promised adolescents the sort of ultra-violence …
For the poor and beaten down – David Caddy’s Man in Black
Perhaps the little black dress epitomises haute couture because black is the perfect foil for a dirty great swag of …
Liberating constraints – Tom Chivers’ Adventures in Form
Reporting back from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, George Szirtes quotes Jackie Kay: “Why do novelists so fear the death of …
