Books Archives - The F-Word

Navigating the man-made city

Thames Menteth Wheelwright10 April 2021

Thames Menteth reviews Leslie Kern’s Feminist City, a book exploring women’s life-long complex relationship with the urban spaces designed to exclude them...

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How do we come back stronger?

Natalie Audley6 April 2021

Natalie Audley reviews The Feminist Book Society’s new collection of essays...

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A sparklingly intelligent debut

Rosie Wilby22 March 2021

Detransition, Baby is for anyone who has ever reached a point of reassessment, transformation and risk...

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March fiction round-up

Zoe Turner11 March 2021

The editors of The F-Word’s fiction section select ten new titles to look out for in March...

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A toolkit for emotional heaviness

Ava MacPherson1 March 2021

Ava MacPherson delves into Natalie Ann Holborow’s second collection of poetry to find nostalgia and reckoning with second selves...

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The complexities of consent

Georgina Diaz22 February 2021

Georgina Diaz explores Katherine Angel’s Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent, a book which is challenging the paradigm of today’s consent culture...

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The interior life like we’ve never seen it before

Zoë King21 February 2021

Zoe King explores the visceral and discomforting experience of María Fernanda Ampuero's stories in translation ...

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February fiction round-up

Leah Cross7 February 2021

The editors of The F-Word’s fiction section select ten new titles to look out for in February. ...

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How fiction can triumph over the trend of anti-racist guides

Sharmin Islam31 January 2021

Sharmin Islam looks at the power of Raven Leilani’s debut novel...

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A story that demands and deserves to be heard

C L Murphy27 January 2021

C L Murphy is swept away by Salena Godden’s debut novel...

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The growth of the Brexit novel

Jessica White16 January 2021

Jessica White considers Olivia Sudjic’s new novel and the growing genre of Brexit fiction...

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A punk rock day-glow dream world

Madeline Carey4 January 2021

Madeline Carey is drawn in by Rachel Genn's What You Could Have Won, but is ultimately left wanting a little more...

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Another sex education

Sarah Bronzite3 January 2021

Sarah Bronzite explores Natalie Fiennes’ Behind Closed Doors; an accessible, albeit occasionally frustrating, introduction to putting sexual attitudes and behaviours within a wider context...

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Is there any such thing as an easy job?

Amy Feldman20 December 2020

Amy Feldman looks at how Kikuko Tsumura’s first novel to be translated into English contributes to a global discussion on modern working culture...

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The best fiction and non-fiction coming in 2021

Zoe Turner20 December 2020

The editors of The F-Word's fiction and non-fiction sections select some of the best new titles coming in 2021...

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A modern collection of shape-shifting narratives

Kathryn Tann12 December 2020

Kathryn Tann reviews Hag, a unique collection of fairy tales re-told...

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“The future of music lies with trans and non-binary people”

Sojourner McKenzie27 November 2020

Sojourner McKenzie sits down with music historian and journalist Lucy O’Brien to talk about the 25th Anniversary edition of her book She Bop and the future of music...

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Shooting an arrow of strength in grief

Jordan Lynch22 November 2020

Jordan Lynch explores the piercing physicality of Sumita Chakraborty's debut poetry collection ...

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