Reviews

Edinburgh Review: In issue 140 of the Edinburgh Review I had the pleasure of being invited to review Sara Maitland’s bewitching collection of science-inspired feminist short stories, Moss Witch and Other Stories.

Take One: Take One is the official film magazine covering the Cambridge Film Festival, dedicated to bringing the best of arthouse and independent cinema into focus. I contributed a number of reviews as part of the coverage of the 2014 Cambridge Film Festival, from praise for the compelling documentaries How I Came to Hate Maths and The Case Against 8 to careful commentary on the thoughtful Ningen and nostalgic ET precursor The Glitterball.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, ed. Peter Boxall (London: Cassell Illustrated, 2006).  Find entries by me on an eclectic bunch of texts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present: Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders, Voltaire’s Candide, Samuel Johnson’s Rasselas, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness, D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love, Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body, Alain de Botton’s On Love, Louis de Bernières’ Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Patricia Duncker’s Hallucinating Foucault, and Michel Faber’s Under the Skin.