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Tomorrow, the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize will be announced. Over the past few weeks I read my way through the shortlist, and it was...

What does it mean to have to change your name for your classmates to be able to pronounce and remember it? How does it feel to be...

The family Gifty remembers from early childhood is a family of four, that quickly became a family of three and way too soon was cut into...

Moll Gladney is a quiet girl, not known to cause troubles to her devout and hardworking parents. But one night she disappears from her...

Desiree and Stella Vignes are identical and inseparable. Only those who know them well will be able to tell them apart: Desiree, the...

The social laws of high school dynamics govern Connell and Marianne’s behaviour. He is the popular star of the school’s football team,...

The term intersectional feminism was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw to highlight how different dimensions of oppression – for example sexism...

Grand Union is Zadie Smith’s collection of short stories, comprising eleven completely new works as well as eight stories previously...

Five letters that will never reach their destination, written by five unnamed people who come from an unnamed, war-torn country form the...

Yaa Gyasi’s stunning debut novel Homegoing traces the story of a Ghanaian family as it plays out both in the Asante region and in...

Fathers and Sons is Howard Cunnell’s beautiful memoir about growing up, about love and masculinity, about fathers and sons. This short...

The Sellout is a work of biting satire, and you best be ready for it when you open this book. Our protagonist is a young man who grew up...

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...

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...

In their powerful and eye-opening manifesto Revolting Prostitutes, Juno Mac and Molly Smith make the point for sex workers’ rights loud...

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...

"Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it."

English version below Scherzetto di Domenico Starnone è la storia di un incontro di quattro giorni tra un nonno scontroso e suo nipote di...

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...

Imagine you had the opportunity to try on different lives – parallel (or perpendicular) to the one you lead. Who and where would you be,...