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Luis López Carrasco on writing The White Desert: a nuclear love story
We’re unsure what, exactly, has happened, or where our protagonists, long-time couple Carlos and Aitana, have found themselves.
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Read an excerpt from Rosie Turner’s queer dating guide, Girlfriend Material
The number one question I get asked on social media is: “How is dating a woman different from dating a man?”
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Hallie Elizabeth Newton on her debut novel Agnes Lives!: ‘a Fucked-Up Mrs Dalloway of Our Time’
Agnes exists in a pre-Trump, pre-COVID, pre-#MeToo New York.
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Step aside, Sappho! Meet the Scottish lesbian poet hiding in a 500-year-old manuscript
Ashley Douglas, unravels the story of Marie Maitland’s secret lesbian love poetry
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Karishma Jobanputra’s debut collection, The Body of the Thing, will make you fall in love with short stories
“Normal Jean Baker of Troy”: the debut short story collection from a British-Indian writer listed for the Brick Lane Short…
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Reading the Season: Autumn
With summer ending, it’s time to turn to autumn reading — beginning with a man’s voice coming from the well.
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Why Do We Know So Little About the Women Who Raise Us? ‘And I Am the Arrow’ Looks for the Answer
From Lost Lambs to Lázár, writers are exploring secrets, power and inheritance. Pia Ghosh-Roy asks how well we can ever…
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Are Influencers Supporting Book Bans?
Sixty years ago the Vatican abolished its ban on sexually explicit books. The Church was still at it when the…
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You Haven’t Read a Lesbian Breakup Novel Quite Like This Before: Ruth Novaczek on Wrongness
“Violette Leduc first taught me that happy endings aren’t very queer”: in her 60s, Ruth Novaczek had her heart broken…
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A Book Lover’s Guide to Dolly Parton
“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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In the Age of ‘Rizz’ and AI Slop, Wodcast Wants Us to Take Words Seriously
When was the last time you opened a dictionary and looked up the meaning of a word?
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Who Is Pepper Slit? SNL Alum Chloe Troast Unpacks Her New Alter Ego
Pepper Slit doesn’t care if you’re in the mood for egg cream.
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Sachiko Nakahara on Building Gods of Death from Ink, Paper and Dirt for Death Note the Musical
The manga and anime series Death Note has been turned into clothing many times.
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“I’m glad that I didn’t grow up in a castle”: Nelio Biedermann on writing Lázár
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Weird Books are Back: Cold’s Guide to the 2026 Booker Prize Longlist
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