Emma Dabiri: ‘I wouldn’t want my children to experience what I did in Ireland’
GROWING UP IN DUBLIN, EMMA DABIRI WAS THE ONLY BLACK PERSON IN HER SPHERE OF VISION. NOW LIVING IN LONDON, THE ACADEMIC, TV PRESENTER…
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Half of the Women’s Prize Shortlist represented by Aitken Alexander
SHORTLIST We’re delighted to reveal this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist, as chosen by our 2019 judges. The shortlist, which features a diverse…
Take a look inside novelist Olivia Sudjic’s London flat
The writer’s home is a calm, organised space – Rebecca Watson interviews Sudjic for the Financial Times. “I’m not sure if you have any…
The Guardian: Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri review – groundbreaking
The personal becomes political in this highly charged history of black people’s hair If you’re expecting cookie-cutter discourse on the nature of black people’s…
Emma Dabiri: How I learned to love my afro hair: ‘I went from tolerating it to enjoying it’
Growing up mixed race in Ireland, I longed for sleek, straight locks, and spent years having treatments that burned my scalp. That horrifies me…
How to Win by Daisy Johnson
A new short story from the Booker-shortlisted author Daisy Johnson. e’re here! Bikinis! Tans! Plucked! Waxed! Ready to go! Thirteen days in a villa with…
A.N. WILSON: The power of the human spirit in a Godless age…
When we first heard the news, it wrenched at our hearts. We all felt we were losing something infinitely precious and something almost personal…
Our client, psychologist, wise woman and expert on Depression, Dorothy Rowe, has died
Dorothy Rowe, who has died aged 88, was one of the earliest figures in psychology to build a bridge between the sometimes arcane world…
Pat Barker reads Medusa
Pat Barker reads her story from the April 15, 2019, issue of the magazine. Barker is the author of fourteen novels, including “Regeneration”; “The Ghost Road,”…
Bernie McGill’s THE WATCH HOUSE shortlisted for the 2019 EU Prize for Literature
The Irish Jury for the EU Prize for Literature (Sorcha De Brún, Ronan Colgan, Conor Kostick, Sinéad Mac Aodha and Nessa O’Mahony) are delighted…