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REVIEWS

‘Crying in H Mart will have you crying on your commute’: a review of Michelle Zauner’s debut book

In this heart-wrenching memoir, singer and guitarist Michelle Zauner recounts her grief over losing her Korean mother to cancer.

Being Self-Partnered: a review of 'Unattached: Essays on Singlehood' edited by Angelica Malin

Unattached features essays from 31 women*, each of whom meditate on being single, either currently or retrospectively. Motivational,...

Inside Al Shabaab: A Review of ‘Everything You Have Told Me Is True’ by Mary Harper

“Please take care, Mary, especially while driving. Bye bye. Have a lovely weekend.” This is not the way one would expect a member of the...

How Black Men are Reflected in Culture: A Review of ‘Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Spa

In the new collection, Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space, twenty writers run through personal anecdotes and essays designed to...

Fear and the Black Body: A Review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Between the World and Me’

Let’s imagine that we resuscitated W.E.B Du Bois and asked him to rewrite The Souls of Black Folk to fit the modern experience of the...

Live Bigger: A Review of ‘Lives of Great Men’ by Chike Frankie Edozien

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time Henry...

How to Exist in Multiple Realties: A Review of ‘Freshwater’ by Akwaeke Emezi

Freshwater is the exciting debut novel by non-binary Igbo/Tamil writer, Akwaeke Emezi. This autobiographical tale tells the story of Ada,...