Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
“The black baby’s crying wormed and bloomed.” When a pale and black-eyed baby is born in its black caul, Rue hesitates before freeing it...
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- May 4, 2021
- 3 min
The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
Everyone who eats should read this book! What should we have for dinner? For omnivores like ourselves this question always causes...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 3 min
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
In the 1970s everyone knows The Six. Their songs are played on every radio station, their records and world tours sell out in the blink...
- Apr 13, 2021
- 2 min
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
What would the world look like, if we didn’t assume the worst of our fellow human beings? If collectively we had a positive, an...
- Apr 6, 2021
- 2 min
Revolting Prostitutes by Molly Smith and Juno Mac
In their powerful and eye-opening manifesto Revolting Prostitutes, Juno Mac and Molly Smith make the point for sex workers’ rights loud...
- Mar 30, 2021
- 3 min
I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman
Ah, this book! This is one that is going to stay with me for a long time. While reading it, I was already looking forward to starting it...
- Mar 16, 2021
- 2 min
Fiction and Non-Fiction by Chinua Achebe
Last week I read both an essay collection and a novel by the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. Africa’s Tarnished Name is a...
- Mar 9, 2021
- 3 min
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Poetic and heart-breaking. Those are the first words that come to mind when I think about Toni Morrison’s masterpiece Beloved. I only...
- Mar 2, 2021
- 3 min
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
"Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it."
- Feb 23, 2021
- 2 min
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock
I stumbled upon Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town on some reading list online – and I am so glad I did! Something...
- Feb 16, 2021
- 3 min
Un Tempo Gentile di Milena Agus
English version below Un Tempo Gentile di Milena Agus è ambientato in un piccolo paese della Sardegna contadina, dimenticata e isolata....
- Feb 9, 2021
- 2 min
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
“This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or...
- Feb 2, 2021
- 3 min
Scherzetto by Domenico Starnone
English version below Scherzetto di Domenico Starnone è la storia di un incontro di quattro giorni tra un nonno scontroso e suo nipote di...
- Jan 26, 2021
- 2 min
Second Nature by Michael Pollan
“Writing and gardening, these two ways of rendering the world in rows, have a great deal in common.” Disguised as a gardening book,...
- Jan 14, 2021
- 2 min
Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
Nina is 32, a successful food writer working on her third book, finally owns property in London – even though it is a bit shabby and has...
- Jan 12, 2021
- 2 min
At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell
In the Bec-da-Gaz bar, towards the end of 1932, philosopher Raymond Aron made a statement that would kickstart the development of...
- Dec 30, 2020
- 2 min
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Imagine you had the opportunity to try on different lives – parallel (or perpendicular) to the one you lead. Who and where would you be,...
- Dec 27, 2020
- 5 min
My 2020 Booker Prize Winner
Over the past few weeks I read my way through the 2020 Booker Prize Shortlist – and a month after Shuggie Bain has been announced the...
- Dec 23, 2020
- 3 min
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 essay Between the World and Me is a great contemporary read to follow James Baldwin's essays. Coates picks up...
- Dec 18, 2020
- 3 min
James Baldwin - Essays
I had a wonderful week: I spent it with James Baldwin's essays in The Fire Next Time and Notes of a Native Son. I first fell in love with...
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