As we engage again in social situations, the new etiquette rules are bewilderingThe other day, flogging tickets to the school summer fair – now the autumn fair due to last term’s endless self-isolation – another parent leaned across the trestle table a…
Damon Galgut: ‘The Booker pulls a nasty little trick on you’
The South African novelist on making a pilgrimage to Cormac McCarthy’s home, his youth in apartheid-era Pretoria and being shortlisted twice for the Booker prizeNovelist and playwright Damon Galgut, 57, grew up in Pretoria, South Africa, at the height …
Girlhood by Melissa Febos review – when a girl becomes a woman
A former dominatrix is eviscerating in her exploration of the sexual submission required as young women matureAmerican author Melissa Febos is many things the average reader very likely won’t be, among them a former dominatrix and a recovering heroin a…