By Tessa Nolan There is a prejudice so embedded in Western culture that most people never think to question it: the assumption that the ability…
The Elly Conway Deception: What the Argylle Pseudonym Reveals About Publishing and Celebrity Culture
By Sara Bright When The Telegraph unmasked the real authors behind the pseudonym Elly Conway on 2 February 2024, it detonated a publishing premise. The…
By Sara Bright In the summer of 1834, a steamship carried two of France’s most celebrated writers from Paris to Venice. Alfred de Musset, the…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic Pelted with herring, lampooned by editors, and ignored by Queen Victoria herself, William McGonagall became the worst…
By Sara Bright In July 2018, author Michelle Harrison discovered her own books on a piracy website called OceanOfPDF.com and did something that would reshape…
By Sara Bright On 12 December 2024, a small, unassuming volume in a faded red leather binding changed hands at Sotheby’s London for £576,000. The…
By Tessa Nolan When Karl Ove Knausgård published the final volume of My Struggle in 2011, he had done something few novelists dare attempt: laid…
The Book of Elsewhere: How Keanu Reeves and China Miéville Turned a Comic Book Into a Literary Event
By Tessa Nolan When Keanu Reeves announced on Good Morning America in January 2024 that he was co-authoring a novel with China Miéville, the literary…
By Maria Bregman, writer, literary and art critic In the early 1960s, Zoya Boguslavskaya already owned a perfectly structured, highly successful existence as an influential…
By Sara Bright By Sara Bright On 8 June 1876, the Catholic Church refused George Sand a funeral. Thousands followed her coffin through the mud…