The Handmaid’s Tale is a Fable for Our Times
Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian classic. Does the new television adaptation do it justice? Sarah Lohmann writes about the series as it reaches its halfway stage. […]
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Review of The Poems of Basil Bunting, edited by Don Share
The modernist Basil Bunting was one of the most important British poets of his generation, but over his career he dropped in and out of obscurity. Emily Van Houten reviews […]
Northern (Power)House of God
Ahead of Gavin Wakefield’s upcoming Durham Book Festival event, The Northern Powerhouse and God: Searching for the Angel of the North, Gašper Jakovac discusses the religious roots of the North-South divide. In the […]
The Weight We Carry is Love: Review of Love and Loss, with Cathy Rentzenbrink and Decca Aitkenhead
It is hard to write about loss, and hard to hear about it. After attending Love and Loss at Durham Book Festival, Cheryl Julia Lee wonders what compels writers to produce […]
Review of The Gordon Burn Prize 2016
Durham Book Festival 2016 opened with the announcement of the Gordon Burn Prize for literature. Hannah Piercy was there to enjoy readings from the nominees, and to celebrate the eventual […]
