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Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld review – when Noah met Sally
A comedy sketch writer’s crush on a pop star sparks this witty take on the Hollywood romcom
Lara Feigel
19, Apr, 2023 @6:30 AM
Resistance fighter, novelist - and Sartre’s favourite agony aunt: rediscovering Alba Céspedes
Championed by Elena Ferrante, Céspedes’s neo-realist classic The Forbidden Notebook is being reissued 70 years after it was first published. It still speaks to women’s lives today
Lara Feigel
25, Mar, 2023 @11:00 AM
Nurse! My pen! Hanif Kureishi’s hospital musings and the art of sickbed writing
The author has published 10,000 words since being left paralysed – about the able-bodied, sexual positions and racist taunts. From Hilary Mantel to Audre Lorde, we look at how illness changes a writer
Lara Feigel
31, Jan, 2023 @4:30 PM
Fay Weldon remembered: ‘She insisted that women needed more fulfilling lives’
Writers who knew her recall how her playful intelligence, rebellious spirit and colourful personality had a profound effect on their life and work
Lara Feigel, Amanda Craig and Lisa Allardice
06, Jan, 2023 @12:08 PM
The New Life by Tom Crewe review – desire on trial
Inspired by the fight to change the law and social mores in Victorian England, this excellent debut dramatises physical intensity and moral dilemmas
Lara Feigel
29, Dec, 2022 @7:30 AM
Euphoria by Elin Cullhed review – inside the mind of Sylvia Plath
The Swedish writer offers an audacious, gripping novel imagining the poet’s final year and the conflict between creative genius and domestic life
Lara Feigel
15, Dec, 2022 @7:30 AM
‘Books bring us into being’: how writing about reading became an inspiring literary genre of its own
Bibliomemoirs are an increasingly popular way for writers to celebrate reading and its power to shape lives
Lara Feigel
13, Aug, 2022 @7:00 AM
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz review – in praise of visionary women
A chorus of writers and artists, from Virginia Woolf to Lina Poletti, tells a bold, original story of creativity and freedom
Lara Feigel
20, Jul, 2022 @6:30 AM
Love and the Novel by Christina Lupton review – an intimate literary journey
An affair drives the author’s highly charged exploration of love in fiction, from marriage to adultery, parenthood to friendship
Lara Feigel
16, Jun, 2022 @9:57 AM
Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell review – a deft portrait of John Donne
Rundell captures John Donne’s unique vision in all its power, eloquence and strangeness
Lara Feigel
28, Apr, 2022 @10:00 AM
Violets by Kyung-sook Shin review – a lonely Seoul
In this atmospheric and gripping fable set in 70s Korea, a fragile young florist dedicates herself to flowers
Lara Feigel
15, Apr, 2022 @8:00 AM
Violets by Alex Hyde review – a tender meditation on motherhood
This lyrical debut novel examines the transformations of two women in the aftermath of the second world war
Lara Feigel
04, Feb, 2022 @9:00 AM
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