Jamie Klingler
27 September 2025
The cult of Lizzy Gilbert
The Eat, Pray, Love author is back with a shocking memoir that reveals far more about her glib manipulations than she understands
Read the full article26 September 2025
What the Booker Prize shortlist gets right – and wrong
This year’s long list boasts parental bonds, family dynamics and an entry I cannot get my head around
Read the full article24 September 2025
What We Left Unsaid evokes family feuds that can’t be forgotten
Winnie M Li’s novel brought back painful memories of sibling resentment and hurt
Read the full article20 September 2025
One Boat, a case for why men shouldn’t write women
Jonathan Buckley’s female protagonist only exists to validate the male characters around her. She’s utterly unbelievable
Read the full article30 August 2025
The Rest of Our Lives lacks a punchline and a point
Benjamin Markovits’s Booker-longlisted The Rest of Our Lives wants us to cheer on a tedious man’s journey of self-discovery. I loathed every moment
Read the full article23 August 2025
Universality, satire that’s highly in tents
Book festivals, ragebait journalism and city boys in the country get eviscerated in Natasha Brown’s brilliant Universality
Read the full article09 August 2025
Why Ghislaine Maxwell deserves nothing
Thanks to Trump, the convicted sex offender is getting more consideration than her and Jeffrey Epstein’s victims ever did
Read the full article06 August 2025
When your book club picks a dud
Oprah Winfrey made me love Wally Lamb. But with The River is Waiting for Me, the spark has gone
Read the full article21 June 2025
A love letter to the Women’s Prize
The book accolade turns 30 this year and I have it to thank for many of the incredible women - and novels - in my life
Read the full article07 June 2025
A Netflix show to challenge misogyny.. and it’s not Adolescence
Forever talks about the stuff Stephen Graham’s hit show didn’t – including what we owe young people in a pornified world
Read the full article12 April 2025
My best friend’s murder
Watching Adolescence took me back 30 years to a school killing in Philadelphia – and the same old questions about boys and rage
Read the full article10 January 2025
Jess Phillips lives and breathes women’s safety. Elon Musk can’t be forgiven for putting her in danger
If you really want to know who cares about the victims of the grooming gangs, look at the people who actually try to help, rather than score points on social media
Read the full article05 November 2024
The Saoirse Ronan moment won’t change men. Men have to change themselves
The actor’s Graham Norton interjection shows that women's realities are still dismissed
Read the full article26 October 2024
Gisèle Pelicot, person of the year 2024
Our 2024 Person of the Year has changed the rules, reversed the language and given women permission to reject shame
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