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With the global pandemic leaving many of us desperately seeking escapism, The Repeater Book of the Occult allows us to dip into worlds far more sinister than our own. Tariq Goddard and Eugene Thacker’s i […]

Comma Press, in partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University, has announced a two-day online publishing conference, to be held on 24 April and 25 April. This event is aimed at increasing accessibility to […]

On the 2nd November, the website Bookshop was launched in the UK, with the intention of financially supporting local, independent bookshops, particularly during these arduous times.

Since lockdown was […]

“It was a cool evening in late summer when Wallace, his father dead for several weeks, decided that he would meet his friends at the pier after all.”

Brandon Taylor’s debut novel, Real Life, is a precise and i […]

Irish author Anna Burns has won the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award, for her fierce novel Milkman.

This award stands as one of the world’s most valuable literary prizes, presenting Burns with a c […]

This is itI’m not coming after youI’m going to lie down for half an hourThis is itI’m not going downOn your memoryI’m not rubbing my face in it anymoreI’m going to yawnI’m going to stretchI’m going to put a knit […]

Last week, an incredible shortlist for the Dublin Literary Award was announced. Anna Burns, Olga Tokarczuk and Tayari Jones, previous winners of the Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Women’s […]

The winners of the Orwell Prize have just been announced. This is an extremely reputable award which celebrates political writing as an art form. As Orwell once wrote, “I write it because there is some lie that I […]

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”- James Baldwin

Upon first reading James Baldwin, I was immediately struck by the vibrancy of his writing, his poi […]

Out of the night that covers me,      Black as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may be      For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance      I have not winced nor cried aloud.U […]

As this July marks the 25th anniversary of Elliott Smith’s self-titled second album, Kill Rock Stars (Smith’s record label) have announced their plans for it to be reissued as a deluxe edition. To be released o […]

“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into l […]

During these dubious days many of us will be spending indoors, I often find that the antidote for my anxiety comes in the form of an engrossing and powerful novel. Here is a compilation of novels which will offer […]

‘The best conversations are with yourself. At least there’s no risk of a misunderstanding.’

First published in 2009, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, translated from Polish by Antonia Llo […]