On reading Naomi Alderman’s The Power while thinking about public toilets

Trips to the toilet are the stuff of neither postcards home nor poetry but none the less that’s where I’m going to start. The time is Easter 2017, the place Nafplio in the Peloponnese, a patterned silk…

In Conversation with Emilia, by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

An Encounter with “Liberty before Liberalism” by Quentin Skinner.

Can I get a witness?

[Content warning: most of this relates to sexual violence]

An Encounter with Kirsty Housley

Part one: in which we talk about collaboration, the romantic notion of individual genius that gives…

An Encounter with Dance Nation at the Almeida

This Encounter with a performance is also an Encounter with a review, by…

In conversation with Shipwreck, by Anne Washburn

In conversation with Hole and Hadestown

This is a continuation of a conversation between me (Maddy) and Rosemary Waugh on feminist…

An encounter with marriage

An encounter with Marriage

In conversation with I’m a Phoenix, Bitch by Bryony Kimmings