25th February 2019
Waris Albakri Writer Make no mistake, the #MeToo movement is a reaction to institutionalised power and how this can be wielded to silence victims of sexual assault, harassment and rape. With high-profile, prolific offenders, such as Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Les Moonves, we see offenders who’ve used the power of esteem to threaten and ...
25th February 2019
Emily Menger-Davies Writer “In a plot driven by gender relations, there was a missed opportunity here to explore LGBTQ themes in the novel.” Naomi Alderman’s The Power envisages a world in which gender relations are turned upside-down, as overnight, women develop a new organ: a “skein” along their collarbone, which enables them to ...
25th February 2019
Sofia Stephens Writer Is the primal and all-consuming feeling the characters share realistic on any level? Or better, is it to be considered in any way desirable? It’s hard to discuss love in concrete terms. The ineffability of the feeling both defines it and prevents us from assigning it an appropriately universal definition, sparking a ...
