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Who Gets to Know - The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

''One of the most striking features of The Safekeep (2025) by Yael van der Wouden is how unevenly knowledge is distributed. Characters know things about each other that others do not; the reader, too, is made to wait...''

Sharp, Sparse, Strained: A Review on Flesh by David Szalay

''David Szalay’s Flesh (2025) is a novel that has grabbed the literary world’s attention – not least because it won the 2025 Booker Prize, with judges calling it “dark but a joy to read...”''

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Modernist Hour!

Close readings and reflections on modernist literature.

Disjointed Dialogue

"Inspired by the real-life case of Ruth Synder, Sophie Treadwell’s ‘Machinal’ (1928) charts the psychological collapse of a young woman crushed by patriarchal and domestic constraints. While often praised for its feminist critique, it is Treadwell’s radical form—particularly her disjointed dialogue—that ‘makes it new’ and serves as a major point of interest for me..."

The Grey Zone

"The grey zone – an exploration of queerness — operates as a tension that destabilizes the binaries of Black/white, woman/man, wife/lover in Nella Larsen's 'Passing'. It haunts the novel like an untold truth, never named but always present, and in doing so, fractures the stable world of Irene Redfield as Larsen queers the very foundations of modernism through her portrayal of repressed desire, ambiguous intimacy, and the unsettling instability of the self..."

Short Story Extracts

All That Remains - A Fictional Memoir

Before the checkpoints and the bombings, before Yusuf and our flat in Paris, there was only the sweet wind rolling over the hills of Beit Daras and Amir.