emancipation

The misery of growing up in a utopian community

5 October 2024 9:00 am

Susanna Crossman recalls her childhood of bullying and sexual molestation in an Orwellian dystopia supposedly devoted to freedom and equality

Culture clash: Things We Don’t Tell the People We Love, by Huma Qureshi, reviewed

11 December 2021 9:00 am

Apart from what the title tells us, these stories are about a fundamental difference in cultures. Huma Qureshi writes like…

The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride - review

25 January 2014 9:00 am

James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird is set in the mid 19th century, and is based on the real life…