Women’s Bodies and Institutions: Christmas as a Catalyst in Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These Review by Natalie van den Berg “This story is dedicated to the women and children who suffered time in Ireland’s mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries.” With the narration of this line from the dedication in the novella, oneContinue reading
Category Archives: RevUU Autumn 2022
Charming Oh William! Review by Ryan Dougherty Taken at first reading, Oh William! is more like a charming painting than a novel. Here, a kitchen and over there a living room. Of course, there are people, too. And as we delve into the painting, we see that perhaps not everything is as charming as theContinue reading
Dear Ma, How Can Poetry Speak to Our Migrant Experience? Creative Criticism by Leanne Talavera I ’ve come to realize, Ma, that arrivals and departures are very chaotic in their order. The frenzied organization of one’s life under a 30kg suitcase limit. The back-and-forth between a pen, and a passenger form, and a passport. TheContinue reading
Not Excluding People from the Picture: An Exploration of Human Kindness in Small Things Like These Review by Susi Westerveld The saying don’t judge a book by its cover doesn’t apply to me, for it is precisely the covers of books that draw me to them. This also counts for Claire Keegan’s novel Small ThingsContinue reading
Color Me Brown – What Girl, Woman, Other Taught Me about My Brownness Creative Criticism by Neelam Reddy Second place winner of the 2022 One Book One Campus Creative Contest on Girl, Woman, Other, hosted by the Utrecht University – Color – Four. I was four years old when I learned the color brown. IContinue reading
A Story We’ve Heard Before: A Review of Damon Galgut’s Booker Prize-Winning The Promise Review by Kenau Bester The candles were lit. The table laid. I can still recall the smell of the tablecloth, the smell of ordained fabric only taken from the cupboard once a year. I recall the dissonant scratching of the record’sContinue reading
Can Noah Can’t Even Even Be Talked About? Feature by Maria Teresa Cattani How does literary freedom function in a school with a specific, defined identity? Are restrictions logically, morally and ethically justifiable? Lately, this discussion has been all over the internet regarding different cases. This article will focus on a case that tookContinue reading
A Night to Remember: A Review of Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo Review by Fleur Pieren As I was looking at the stack of books piled in my bedroom window – the luxury of arranging my ever-growing collection in a Pinterest-worthy aesthetic has long been thrown out this exact window – I decided that, one, IContinue reading
The Real Love Story in The Daughter of Doctor Moreau Review by Anna Mangnus Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s newest novel The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is a beautifully atmospheric novel that follows the coming of age of Carlota Moreau, though the driving force of the novel is Carlota’s effort to keep Yaxaktun – the hacienda where sheContinue reading
Thread of Life: The Female Perspective in Greek Mythology Feature by Josephine Monnickendam The Moirai, the three Greek Goddesses of Fate, are not yet ready to cut the thread of life for women in Greek mythology. The sisters, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, are busy spinning, measuring and deciding over the different threads. Whose narrative shouldContinue reading
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