"An Obsession Revisited": Dinah Brooke on Her Unobtainable Father
Our relationship was one of intense passion, devotion, rage, hatred, anguish, desire, disgust, but it was all on my side. I don’t know what he felt about me. He read the book I wrote about his life, but made no comment. Whenever I made an emotional demand on him he retired rapidly into his madness; otherwise he was polite, humorous and amenable.
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The Booker Prize Revisited: Why you should read ‘A Green Equinox’ by Elizabeth Mavor
In our monthly series, ‘TBR: The Booker Revisited’ Lucy Scholes shines a spotlight on hidden gems from the Booker Library. This month’s selection is ‘A Green Equinox’ by Elizabeth Mavor, a book about love and its multifarious manifestations
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The New Yorker: Rediscovering a Lost Dystopia and Its Prescient Author
Kay Dick, a queer editor and writer, died in obscurity in 2001. Did her novella “They” foreshadow our present discontent?