Women In Fiction

Book review | ‘After Sappho’ intricately weaves life stories of iconic queer feminists

2022 Booker Prize longlisted Selby Wynn Schwartz's 'After Sappho' will be remembered as an extraordinary novel that celebrates women, calls out their erasure or rejection by male-dominated literary circles, and traces the historical figures who wrote on women loving women.

50 years on, the exodus of South Asians from Uganda finds retelling in three debut novels

This year marks 50 years since Ugandan dictator Idi Amin expelled South Asians from his country. We put the spotlight on three recent novels by women writers that dwell on this event in world history.

Joan Didion for sale: the auction of the author’s belongings reveals the grand fiction of her image

Whole generations of writers continue to make themselves in the fantasy of her image, though the affordances of a life in writing are no longer what they were.