by Lydia | Oct 21, 2021 | Front page, Reviews
The debut collection by Emily Cooper opens on a potential slip, a dangerously formless ice-cream on the tarmac: somebody is going to get hurt. There’s no ownership here, no stasis, not of the physical sort – our narrator is a passer-by, a witness-but-not, and as...
by Lydia | Nov 4, 2019 | Reviews
After developing Alzheimer’s, Annie Ernaux’s mother spent a period living with her daughter, before ultimately being moved to a geriatric hospital where she lived out her last two years. On the surface, then, I Remain in Darkness (translated from the French by Tanya...
by Lydia | Jul 9, 2018 | Front page, Reviews
The introduction to this collection of essays exploring what it means to be, or have been, working class begins with the question I also began with: Who exactly is working class these days? Are you still working class if you’ve been to university? If you have a good...