Hornet highballs anyone?
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
Lisa McInerney found a brilliant way to turn heads and hone her craft as the ‘Sweary Lady’ behind the ‘Arse…
In praise of LSD
Ayelet Waldman is, surely, not the first writer to have scrolled through a list of ‘Books of the Year’ and…
In praise of LSD
Ayelet Waldman is, surely, not the first writer to have scrolled through a list of ‘Books of the Year’ and…
Wild, wild women
Who is the least likely candidate for an animated princess movie? That’s the question former DreamWorks animator Jason Porath asked…
Wild, wild women
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
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’
All parents worry about the extent to which their children will expose their private weirdness to the world. They tell…
