Essay A Crack in Everything: part 2 In the second part of her series on friendship break-up, one writer explores 'ghosting' in literary fiction. By Grace McCleen 27 minute read
Essay A Crack in Everything: part 1 In the first of a three-part essay on friendship and rejection, Grace McCleen writes about ghosts, mirrors and the chasm within. By Grace McCleen 20 minute read
Review Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal; review What happens in a world where men die out? Not much... By Lizzie Kaye 4 minute read
Extract The lure of the Omnibus What was it like to be a woman working the buses during World War One? By Emmanuelle Dirix 13 minute read
Review A woman reading a man reading Hannah Arendt A (male) cartoonist has written a graphic book about a woman. What does a (female) comic aficionado think of it? By Lizzie Kaye and Ken Krimstein 14 minute read
Extract Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments An exploration of the lives of the first generation of black women born in the US after the abolition of slavery By Saidiya Hartman 30 minute read
Shelfie ‘Books are my most treasured objects’ Shelfie series: The poet, Sabrina Mahfouz, on her love of The Odyssey and the joy of reading in bed. By Sabrina Mahfouz 3 minute read
Q&A A modern witch in an ancient world How Madeline Miller set Circe at the centre of her epic and made Odysseus the cameo. By Madeline Miller and Isobel Kieran 8 minute read
Essay Clever girl What will it take for women to be seen instinctively as natural geniuses? By Angela Saini 11 minute read