Helen R. Brown

Hornet highballs anyone?

17 June 2017 9:00 am

After school last Wednesday, I watched my five-year-old daughter pop a dead cricket on to her tongue and proclaim it:…

The gangster life of Ryan

29 April 2017 9:00 am

Lisa McInerney found a brilliant way to turn heads and hone her craft as the ‘Sweary Lady’ behind the ‘Arse…

In praise of LSD

18 February 2017 9:00 am

Ayelet Waldman is, surely, not the first writer to have scrolled through a list of ‘Books of the Year’ and…

In praise of LSD

16 February 2017 3:00 pm

Ayelet Waldman is, surely, not the first writer to have scrolled through a list of ‘Books of the Year’ and…

Wild, wild women

21 January 2017 9:00 am

Who is the least likely candidate for an animated princess movie? That’s the question former DreamWorks animator Jason Porath asked…

Seema Biswas as Phoolan Devi in the 1994 film Bandit Queen

Wild, wild women

19 January 2017 3:00 pm

Who is the least likely candidate for an animated princess movie? That’s the question former DreamWorks animator Jason Porath asked…

A bit player in the great drama

22 October 2016 9:00 am

There’s a glorious scene in Astrid Lindgren’s first Pippi Longstocking book in which her fearless, freckled heroine strides to the…

‘I wish you were never born’

30 July 2016 9:00 am

All parents worry about the extent to which their children will expose their private weirdness to the world. They tell…