from Outside the gates by Molly Gloss
And he liked to feel himself part of that big family, to share in their noisy, open love.
1 February 2019
from Eggshells by Caitriona Lally
Her world is full of children and dings and action verbs, but I’m uncomfortable with verbs; they expect too much.
2 December 2018
from Tallgrass
Conservation biologists have given us a term for what we already knew – that many people are simply oblivious to the...
28 November 2018
from Us against You by Fredrik Backman
It’s so easy to place your hope in people. To think that the world can change overnight. We demonstrate after an...
31 October 2018
from Us against you by Fredrik Backman
Perhaps one day he’ll find words for that feeling of being different. How physical it is. Exclusion is a form of...
31 October 2018
from Us against You by Fredrik Backman
It’s always the aggressors’ feelings we have to defend. As if they’re the ones who need our understanding. Fredrik Backman –...
31 October 2018
from Us against You by Fredrik Backman
The comment section does what the comment section always does: smells blood and catches fire. Fredrick Backman – Us against you...
30 October 2018
from Masterminds of the right by Emily O'Reilly
The tactics, and at times, the sheer genius, of the conservative lobby came most sharply into focus during the 1986 divorce...
9 July 2018
from Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
A woman like me is always a temptation, if possible to arrange it unobserved; as whatever we may say about it...
25 May 2018
from The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane
So few wild creatures, relatively, remain in Britain and Ireland: so few, relatively, in the world. Pursuing our project of civilisation,...
7 April 2018
from Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing
But how can you trust anyone’s story? Every story, including mine, is an enactment of what we wish to be true,...
8 March 2018
from Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing
We thought we were so modern. But then so did our parents, and so did their parents before them. Mayhem: a...
8 March 2018