Inwardness Turned Outwards: Tools for Extinction
Tools for Extinction is a collection of short fiction and non-fiction that was envisaged and published as a response to the period of social distancing and illness caused by the…
Sontag, Baldwin, hooks: On Reading As a Gateway to Empathy and Love
Susan Sontag had a writing mind like no other that I've encountered. She was a force, a magnetic personality born with an insatiable urge for knowledge, and she dedicated her…
Elastic Love: A Review of Johanne Bille’s Elastic
Johanne Bille is a Danish author who belongs to the arena of important contemporary voices who have attempted to capture the complexity of modern love, and have masterfully succeeded in…
Remembering Toni Morrison and James Baldwin: The Grandeur of The Bluest Eye and The Fire Next Time
Toni Morrison and James Baldwin have provided us with some of the most important works when it comes to African-American literature. When Morrison passed away in August 2019, a myriad…
I Dare You To Breathe: Maggie O’Farrell’s Memoir “I Am, I Am, I Am”
From our earliest days, most of us fear death and learn to regard it as an unwelcomed guest, an entity to be avoided at all costs. And yet, there are…
Alan Lightman’s Belgrade Lecture: The Intricate Artistry of Scientific Exploration
Rainer Maria Rilke once said that in art we should love the questions themselves. As an individual raised on questioning the world and people surrounding me as well as someone…
Poetry Monday – Awakening in the midst of Autumn
*** I learnt emotion in dead air on the other side of the sandpit holidays aren’t sensations is the scent of vacation a breath of fresh air? a…
