Posts

• On Potential

  Lately I’ve been dipping into speculative fiction again after a long stretch of reading mostly literary novels. I’ve been especially…
  Nov 2, '26

• Recent reads

  I was a teenager when I first started reading Barbara Trapido’s novels, and I haven’t returned to them since. They…
  Jul 24, '26

• Novels are long

  Before I wrote a novel, I think I had this idea in my mind that literary output is created in…
  Feb 15, '26

• A Snake in the Mouth

  One of the naive assumptions behind single-sex schooling is that separating pupils along the gender binary removes the ‘problem’ of…
  Oct 6, '25

• I sentence you to a nuanced labyrinth!

  In anticipation of reading We Love You, Bunny, Mona Awad’s recently-released sequel to Bunny, I revisited the original. I recalled…
  Oct 3, '25