Is creating new life in the face of rising authoritarianism, a casually accepted genocide, and climate collapse inherently cruel?

Is creating new life in the face of rising authoritarianism, a casually accepted genocide, and climate collapse inherently cruel?

Reading and discussion Busting the myth that novel-writing is a purely solitary pursuit, three Berlin-based writers who regularly read and critique each other’s work will talk about the intimacy of sh...

When heat waves summon jellyfish and prophecy.

When heat waves summon jellyfish and prophecy.

For the last five days, I’ve been in Perth, attending a symposium at the University of Western Australia on the work of Helen Garner.

For the last five days, I’ve been in Perth, attending a symposium at the University of Western Australia on the work of Helen Garner.

Thinking about women artists and having children

Thursday 22nd May  6.30 to 9pm Join us to celebrate the launch of The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana, published by Peninsula Press.  Vijay will be discussing his new novel with Lucie Elven; author of...

Throughout her quietly compelling second novel, Elegy, Southwest, Madeleine Watts conjures a sense of trundling steadily towards disaster. The narrator, a young Australian woman called Eloise, is reco...

Madeleine Watts’ shrewdly funny novel anchors the climate crisis in personal grief and prescient parallels with California’s wildfires

Writer Madeleine Watts discusses taking creative work seriously, describing a world impacted by climate change, and the importance of replenishing the soul with art

With The Passenger Seat and Elegy, Southwest coming out within weeks of each other, minor lits decided to capitalize on the coincidence and get novelist couple Vijay Khurana and Madeleine Watts tog…

With The Passenger Seat and Elegy, Southwest coming out within weeks of each other, minor lits decided to capitalize on the coincidence and get novelist couple Vijay Khurana and Madeleine Watts tog…

Buy tickets for the event with Madeleine Watts in conversation with Chloë Ashby at Daunt Books Hampstead from Daunt Books today.

Our review of Madeleine Watts novel Elegy, Southwest.

Elegy, Southwest is a novel which entwines a tragic love story with an intelligent and profound consideration of the way we now live alongside environmental breakdown; an elegy for lost…

How Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty tells the story of a changing climate

Madeleine Watts joins us in Remington to talk about her new novel ELEGY, SOUTHWEST, in conversation with Jeannie Vanasco!

In the final months of 2020, finding myself stranded by travel restrictions in Berlin, I re-read W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn. I had picked it out of my bookshelf and slipped it into my suitcase t…

Afterwards, you told me it was part of what you loved most about those weeks. You got up every morning and you just drove, with only the vaguest sense of where we would be sleeping thatnight. You d…

In the final months of 2020, finding myself stranded by travel restrictions in Berlin, I re-read W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn. I had picked it out of my bookshelf and slipped it into my suitcase t…

Afterwards, you told me it was part of what you loved most about those weeks. You got up every morning and you just drove, with only the vaguest sense of where we would be sleeping thatnight. You d…

Buy tickets for the event with Madeleine Watts in conversation with Chloë Ashby at Daunt Books Hampstead from Daunt Books today.

A young couple encounter catastrophic fires and ruined rivers on a California road trip, searching for art and hope in a darkening world

A young couple encounter catastrophic fires and ruined rivers on a California road trip, searching for art and hope in a darkening world

A young couple encounter catastrophic fires and ruined rivers on a California road trip, searching for art and hope in a darkening world Madeleine Watts’ first novel, 2020’s The Inland Sea, was an urban fever dream, an ambitious, sophisticated and…

Elegy, Southwest, Madeleine Watts’s sophomore novel, follows a young married couple from New York City on a two-week road trip across the American Southwest in November 2018. As wildfires rage and the...

In just a little over a month’s time, my second novel, Elegy, Southwest, will be out.

A timely and urgent novel following a young married couple on a road trip through the American southwest as they grapple with the breakdown of their relationship in the shadow of environmental collaps...