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Only just about a decade ago, referring to yourself as a podcast aficionado would carry the same kind of quaint specificity as being a young person that, say, listens to the shipping…
In a Booker Prize shortlist that includes tales of homophobic murder and suicidal ideation in the midst of the 2024…
“Don’t be nostalgic for a great age of reading”, commands Dame Mary Beard, wearing a glittering sequin blazer. She has…
"How do you scaffold the wide, expansive possibility of a deaf life?"
The number one question I get asked on social media is: “How is dating a woman different from dating a…
We’re unsure what, exactly, has happened, or where our protagonists, long-time couple Carlos and Aitana, have found themselves.
Ashley Douglas, unravels the story of Marie Maitland’s secret lesbian love poetry
“Normal Jean Baker of Troy”: the debut short story collection from a British-Indian writer listed for the Brick Lane Short…
With summer ending, it’s time to turn to autumn reading — beginning with a man’s voice coming from the well.
From Lost Lambs to Lázár, writers are exploring secrets, power and inheritance. Pia Ghosh-Roy asks how well we can ever…
Sixty years ago the Vatican abolished its ban on sexually explicit books. The Church was still at it when the…
“Violette Leduc first taught me that happy endings aren’t very queer”: in her 60s, Ruth Novaczek had her heart broken…
“If I’m remembered 100 years from now, I hope it will be not for looks but for books”: a reading…
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