The Marriage Plot

Posted 5:01pm Sunday 30th September 2012

After he focussed on mass suicide in The Virgin Suicides and then hermaphrodism in Middlesex, I was curious to see what Jeffrey Eugenides had in store for us with his latest novel, The Marriage Plot. Unlike his other novels, The Marriage Plot does not trade in shock value. Instead, the plot centres Read more...

The Forgotten Waltz

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 29th July 2012

Attraction works in mysterious ways, and we often find ourselves wanting things we cannot have. But what happens when we get what we want? What happens when our lust for our husband’s attractive, married friend shifts from fantasy to reality? What about his family, our family, and our marriage? At Read more...

Poetry | Issue 15

Posted 5:13pm Sunday 8th July 2012

You sit there (Can you call it sitting?) staring inquisitively out. Is it true about your memory? That sucks Actually, you suck. No actually, you do: I’ve seen you sucking up all the water Calling it breathing. We breathe too you know, but do you see us Read more...

Pets! Dead Or Alive!

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012

Marina Lewycka’s Various Pets Alive and Dead delves into the development of a slightly dysfunctional family who have taken very different lives after growing up in a left-wing liberal commune. Set in 2008, the novel moves between Doncaster and London, exploring both the present lives of the Read more...

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