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Guardian Review | Mr Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt
I want a good gothic. A novel that smells of blood and old Bibles and sex, ripe as a walled-up corpse, but stays the right side of self-parody by sheer commitment. Sadly, Mr Splitfoot is not that book....
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Independent | I’m not surprised that the BBC chastised Jenni Murray over her...
Impartiality is the necessary fiction that allows the BBC to exist. A public service broadcaster that didn’t attempt to hold its head above bias would be untenable, and this is why the BBC’s editorial...
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New Statesman | The anti-Trump toolkit: the new books on how to resist...
After the shock of Donald Trump’s victory, the question for liberals is: what now? Two new books are offering answers. The US president’s first weeks in power have been marked by resistance both on the...
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Guardian Review | The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy
Some opening lines are so good, you worry that what comes after will disappoint. This is how The Possessions starts: “The first time I meet Patrick Braddock, I’m wearing his wife’s lipstick.” It’s a...
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Independent | Amal Clooney is fighting Isis – but thankfully we’re discussing...
Amal Clooney is pregnant! Did you know that? Pregnant! Enriched with the Hollywood sperm of her husband George, Clooney is currently in the process of growing not one but two – two! – babies. And she...
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New Statesman | Election 2017: what should you do if you support Labour but...
I’ve had a lot of conversations about Jeremy Corbyn with fellow Labour supporters. Well, arguments, really. A lot of the kind of arguments that devolve into apoplectic stammering, mutually hostile...
View ArticleAll the books I read in 2017, part 1 (January-June)
The time in which I’ve been writing these annual posts is also the time in which I’ve become a more-or-less professional literary critic. It’s funny to see them turn from a snapshot of what I, Sarah...
View ArticleSix years in the gender wars
New Year’s Day 2015 was a bad one. My main memory of it is the moment when my husband essentially scraped me off the bed, where I was lying face-down, crying, because I’d seen a tweet from someone I...
View ArticleSpeech: the power of feminist writing
This is the text of a speech I gave at an event organised by Women Talk Back at the University of Bristol, 28 May 2019. Women Talk Back is the sole female-only student feminist society in the UK. You...
View ArticleThe Stage (only they unpublished it like cowards) | The Old Vic has made an...
This article appeared briefly on the Stage before reactions to it convinced them to unpublish both this, and the article it was responding to. The features editor originally approached me, and as well...
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