Rebecca Tamás – Witch
On Friday the 21st August, 1829, The Times reported on the case of Jean Sabathé. His child was gravely ill. …
Tag Archives: Penned in the Margins
Theatre of Blood – Chris McCabe’s Speculatrix
Oxford’s Golden Cross is a Pizza Express now but the interior decor points to its Tudor pedigree. Outside, the square …
Almost Lost My Mind – Melissa Lee-Houghton’s Beautiful Girls
In London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd writes that ‘London drives some of its citizens mad. A psychiatric survey in the …
Please mind the gap – Hannah Silva’s Forms of Protest
How I willed Waterloo’s departures board to cascade into its flipping and clacking, although it was impossible to tell whether that first flip …
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 …
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 …
