Introduction by Kenau Bester and Jared Meijer
Content
Dear Ma, How Can Poetry Speak to the Migrant Experience? by Leanne Talavera
Only Two Questions at Three in the Morning: A Review of No One is Talking About This by José Dorenbos
Women’s Bodies and Institutions: Christmas as a Catalyst in Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These by Natalie van den Berg
Not Excluding People from the Picture: An Exploration of Human Kindness in Small Things Like These by Susi Westerveld
Can Noah Can’t Even Even Be Talked About? by Maria Teresa Cattani
Color Me Brown – What Girl, Woman, Other Taught Me about My Brownness by Neelam Reddy
The Real Love Story in The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Anna Mangnus
I Am Everything: Literature Crossing Ethnical and Sexual Borders by Dick Hogeweij
A Story We’ve Heard Before: A Review of Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-Winning The Promise by Kenau Bester
Dear Poet, Stay in Your Lane by Laurine Tavernier
The Other Child: Witnessing Chronic Illness by Jared Meijer
A Night to Remember: A Review of Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo by Fleur Pieren
Thread of Life: The Female Perspective in Greek Mythology by Josephine Monnickendam
Filling the Void: Exploring Female Connection in Loneliness by Zoë Abrahams
He’s Not a ‘Man Written by a Woman’ – You’re Just Ignoring All of His Red Flags as far as Coco Mellors’ Cleopatra and Frankenstein is Concerned by Moe Yonezawa
Charming Oh William! by Ryan Dougherty
‘Maybe Love and Loneliness Are Not that Different After All’: A Dialogue about Klara and the Sun by Aristi Makrygiannaki