Journalist Jessica Morris was 12 years old when she was diagnosed with anxiety and depression. ‘I can’t remember much about that year,’ she notes in When Hope Speaks, ‘except that I felt perpetually alone at school.’ Following her diagnosis, thanksRead more…
[This is the 21st instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] I wonder how many nations’ readers are familiar with the sensation of picking up a work of literary fiction and recognising in it the voices of five orRead more…
[This is the twentieth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] A few weeks ago in a review of Anne Enright’s short story collection The Portable Virgin I made this observation: “[Short story collections seem] like something a publisherRead more…
‘Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style—but a particular kind of style. It is the love of the exaggerated, the ‘off’’, of things being what-they-are-not.’ (Sontag 1964, s.8) Gonzo: My name is Charles Dickens. Rizzo theRead more…
[This is the eighteenth instalment in Ashley Thomson’s No Man’s Land Reading Project.] I will probably realise this generalisation to be false not long after making it, but for now it’s helping me begin a review of a book which isRead more…
