I’ve written before about my frustration with J.K. Rowling’s white-washed, cishet-centric world view, and her performative allyship to the disenfranchised. The self-congratulatory liberal politics she’s expressed have always faded when her billionaire’s bottom line was in question, or when one … Continue reading J. K. Rowling & the TERF Receipts Delete your account.
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them began life in 2001 as a Comic Relief fundraiser. It was a thin paperback intended to be a copy of Harry’s Hogwarts textbook, complete with scribbled in-joke marginalia supposedly penned by Harry, Ron … Continue reading Not-So-Fantastic Queerbaiting and Where to Shove Your Bad Racial Politics There’s been fan outcry (because of course there has). Rowling doesn’t care. But is anyone shocked?
The concept of The Great American (or Irish, or Canadian, or…) Novel is misleading. For a book to mean anything to one person or demographic, it must inevitably leave another cold. This is why you’re a thousand times more likely … Continue reading After All This Time… A generation, nineteen years later.
The Glass Shore Various Authors, Ed. Sinéad Gleeson The Glass Shore is undoubtedly one of the finest books published this year. A collection of short stories by women writers from Northern Ireland, expertly edited by Sinead Gleeson, … Continue reading Books that Made Waves in 2016