anna leszkiewicz

Jennifer Dawson’s lost chronicle of a crack-up The Ha-Ha, a newly reissued 1961 novel about a young woman’s time in a mental hospital, is startlingly contemporary

thanks so much for sharing ! It is indeed online: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

I love this Tracey and feel very emotional reading it. Ten years of beautiful columns! Thank you ❤️

Curtis Sittenfeld’s ordinary lives The stories in her zeitgeisty collection Show Don’t Tell are dated by their cultural references, but their astute observations are timeless.

friends fear she’s writing about curtis sittenfeld again! www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Trump is the rule, not the exception My one earnest newsletter of the year

a great and uncharacteristically earnest piece by @nickfthilton.bsky.social on the rightward lurch of the digital ecosphere and the rise of macho individualism open.substack.com/pub/futurepr...

Rewriting the story of Gisèle Pelicot Caroline Darian’s I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again – an account of her father’s abuse of her mother – suggests memoir can be an antidote to doubt, shame and silence.

I wrote about Caroline Darian’s memoir of the abuse of her mother, Gisèle Pelicot www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

‘The Small-Girl’s Proust’ | Anna Leszkiewicz One of the worst moments of Dodie Smith’s life was when her debut novel became a bestseller. It was 1948, she was fifty-two, and I Capture the Castle, her

professional highlight of last year was getting to write about one of my most loved novels, I Capture the Castle, for the New York Review of Books! www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

forgot to reactivate my twitter! so it’s gone forever. felt a twinge of sadness as an obsessive self-archivist but i’m sure it’s for the best