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…

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 Dance Nation at the Almeida

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

An encounter with marriage

An encounter with Marriage

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

An Encounter with Maggie Nelson & Naomi Alderman

An encounter with care, money and value

“It’s like a prison in here,” says X, with a smile. It’s not really a joke. He eases…

Make way for the matriarchy: an interview with Busty Beatz and Lisa Fa’alafi of Hot Brown Honey

An Encounter with Un Beau Soleil Interieur

“A refreshingly honest tale of a middle-aged woman’s quest for love” is how the…