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Tag: Literature

‘You had to tell children the truth’: intergenerational bonds, backlashes, secrets and alliances in Veronique Olmi’s Daughters Beyond Command

14th November 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Family ties are challenged and remade during politically divisive and tumultuous times in Véronique Olmi’s intimate and brilliantly written novel, Daughters Beyond Command.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Alison Anderson, Books, daughters, Daughters Beyond Command, Europa Editions, Feminism, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Literature, literature in translation, mother-daughter relationships, Motherhood, Novel, Véronique Olmi

Taking A Long Look: an exhilarating journey through Vivian Gornick’s criticism

7th March 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

Vivian Gornick’s latest collection of essays on literature, culture and feminism demonstrates the power of the voice in personal journalism.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: criticism, Culture, essays, Feminism, Literature, New York, Verso Books, Vivian Gornick

Life in Languages, Chapter 1: Origins

7th July 202010th July 2020  Elodie Rose Barnes

In this first instalment of her self-conceived series, Life in Languages, Elodie Rose Barnes considers how texts in translation have made an impact on her life and writing, especially during lockdown, and sees the art of translation as a bridge in the era of physical distancing.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books, Childhood, Elodie Rose Barnes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Les Fugitives, Life in Languages, Literature, Mireille Gansel, Nancy Drew, Ros Schwartz, The Little Prince, Translation, Translation as Transhumance

The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Festival

14th January 201928th January 2019  Lucy Writers

Our editor-in-chief, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, looks ahead to some of the highlights of the first ever Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize Festival, taking place this Saturday.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Lucy FeaturesTagged: Cambridge, Frances Maynard, Jane Eyre, Jo Browning-wroe, Kay Loftus, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Lesley Sanderson, Literature, Little Brown, Lucy Cavendish College, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize festival, Lucy Malagoni, Miranda Doyle, Nelle Andrew, Sara Collins, Sophie Hannah, Sphere, Swan Song, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, Virago
  • Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’ Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert, London
    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
  • Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum
    By Lisa Goodrum
  • Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas
    By Rachel Ashenden
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