He was nervous, unstable, oddly impulsive, plagued by obsessions, passionate but mysteriously self-thwarting; yet able to locate something else within himself

Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg by Emily Rapp Black is an amputee’s personal examination of how Kahlo's experiences, art, and disabilities shaped her life.

★★★★★ Johnson’s book is a deeply personal and human meditation on music and mental health, and the redemptive power of love “…As I got out of the taxi Kate fixed me with a look of intense, focussed co...

★★★★★ Johnson’s book is a deeply personal and human meditation on music and mental health, and the redemptive power of love “…As I got out of the taxi Kate fixed me with a look of intense, focussed co...

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. One summer in Brooklyn I made an outline for my first book. I was told I must do this, or my ideas would be unorganized, m…

In her collection of stories, Ways of Telling, Xandra Bingley reflects on a literary life well lived... and contemplates its end

From the author of the UK bestseller Bertie, May and Mrs Fish comes an unforgettable exploration of memory, loss and human connection, with an introduction by Margaret Atwood

In 2005 Xandra Bingley published Bertie, May and Mrs Fish, an extraordinarily lively and enjoyable memoir of her childhood on a Cotswold farm during the second world war. Much of the writing was…

From the author of the UK bestseller Bertie, May and Mrs Fish comes an unforgettable exploration of memory, loss and human connection, with an introduction by Margaret Atwood

April 21, 2026 | 6:30 PM TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE Join us for “Returns”, a performance-lecture by novelist Tom McCarthy, as part of the series “Today” is an Impossible Word for Me: Bachmann at 100”…

In this talk, author and psychoanalyst Andrew Jamieson focuses on the internal world of Pablo Picasso and Nelson Mandela via Freud and Jung’s accounts of the unconscious, introducing the ideas behind ...

Tom McCarthy’s critical study of postwar Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann shows a deep sensitivity to form.

What it means to have a home has been central to drama, poetry and the novel for millennia. It is explored with insight by Tom McCarthy in a scintillating piece of literary analysis called “The thresh...

In this talk, author and psychoanalyst Andrew Jamieson focuses on the internal world of Pablo Picasso and Nelson Mandela via Freud and Jung’s accounts of the unconscious, introducing the ideas behind…

In his groundbreaking book, Andrew Jamieson unpacks ten of psychotherapy’s most profound principles and illuminates them through the biographies of twenty

In her collection of stories, Ways of Telling, Xandra Bingley reflects on a literary life well lived... and contemplates its end

In his groundbreaking book, Andrew Jamieson unpacks ten of psychotherapy’s most profound principles and illuminates them through the biographies of twenty

In her collection of stories, Ways of Telling, Xandra Bingley reflects on a literary life well lived... and contemplates its end

In his groundbreaking book, Andrew Jamieson unpacks ten of psychotherapy’s most profound principles and illuminates them through the biographies of twenty

In her collection of stories, Ways of Telling, Xandra Bingley reflects on a literary life well lived... and contemplates its end

Andrew Jamieson talks to Rosalind Porter - On the Couch: Twenty Extraordinary Personalities, from Picasso to Putin

Andrew Jamieson talks to Rosalind Porter - On the Couch: Twenty Extraordinary Personalities, from Picasso to Putin

In his groundbreaking book, Andrew Jamieson unpacks ten of psychotherapy’s most profound principles and illuminates them through the biographies of twenty